Hospitals, infirmaries, and dispensaries : their construction, interior arrangement, and management, with descriptions of existing institutions / by F. Oppert.

  • Oppert, Franz.
Date:
1883
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    and lavatories, are built in projecting parts, and have tiled floors. For warming we find fireplaces and steam pipes, for ventilation ridges in the roof and outlets leading into the large smoke-shaft. There are also ventilators on Sherringham's principle. Two new wards, 16 beds each, one for women and the other for children, have been opened a few months ago. These wards are in a handsome pavilion erected on the hospital grounds by private munificence, and costing about 35,000 dollars. Besides accommo- dation for nurses, etc., in this pavDion there are rooms for operations of ovariotomy. Fig. 7.—Stuuges' Ward, Bellevue Hospital, New York. A. Men's ward. D. Attendant. G. Entrance. B. Women's ward. E. Nurse. H. Verandah. C. Corridor. F. Ward-kitclien and dining-rooms. K. Fireplace. a, sink ; h, bath ; c, lavatory ; d, steam coils. Of recent improvements are to be mentioned ambulance carriages and a photographic gallery. Many patients pay by the week; seamen who cannot afford it are paid for by their consuls (four dollars a week). The recent hospitals of New York, mostly small ones, are built on the pavilion plan, and two floors high—St. Luke's with 150 beds, St. Vincent's, Mount Sinai for Jews, a Negro Hospital, and one for foreigners; the Lennox Hospital, and an infirmary in the Second Avenue are mentioned; with the latter a female college is connected. The Roosevelt Hospital, for more than 200 beds, is one of the largest recent institutions. It consists of a central portion and four pavilions for patients. There are three ward-floors over a basement, and the distance be- tween two contiguous pavilions measures 27 m. 50 c. The laro-e wards are 32-3 m. long, 914 m. wide, and 4*57 m. high. The cubic space for each patient is 48J^ cubic m. The warminn- is partly by artificial means (steam).