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

  • Oppert, Franz.
Date:
1883
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    233/324 (page 209)
    winter time) by hot air and ventilated. There are lanterns in the wall, throwing light both into the cell and the corridor. To each cell belongs a little garden, separated by walls from the adjoining one. The outer side of the garden is closed by a wicket; behind this the ground slopes till it reaches a high wall. The infirmary contains 36 beds, including itch patients. There is a ward for males on one side and one for females on the other side. The wards have opposite windows, open fireplaces for warming, apertures for admitting warm air, and ventilators in the walls. The cubic space is very ample. Baths.—They were built by M. Bouillon on improved principles. The common bath-room has opposite windows; they open inwards, and are high up from the floor. The lower parts of the walls are cemented. The room for sulphureous baths has cemented walls, which are oil-painted. The hydro-therapeutic appliances are similar to those in St. Louis. The laash-hoitse is very commodious, and contains similar arrange- ments to the Lariboisiere; but the drying - stoves are on a new principle. The kitchen is spacious; steam is used for cooking. Administration.—All the asylums are under the Prefect of the Seine Departement. The Asile de Ste. Anne is in a more advanced state than the others; it receives principally the curable cases. In addition to the accommodation in the asylums, insane persons will be sent to and lodged with families in the neighbouring country. The distribution of patients to the different hospitals is under a central board, the Bureau d'Examen, which is located at the Asile de Ste. Anne. The patients remain during the time needed for a correct diagnosis in the admission-wards of Ste. Anne. Some who suffer from acute diseases with symptomatic delirium are also re- ceived, as also doubtful cases, in order to avoid sending any persons to a lunatic asylum who are not insane, this being what their rela- tions dread very much. Large farms are attached to the asylums. The Director of Ste. Anne is a medical man. He has a private house and gardens. There are four head physicians—one being attached to the admission-wards; two ifUernes; one dispenser, and two assistants. The nursing is in the hands of sisters of charity. The means for amusement are as yet scanty in Ste. Anne, such as cards, dominoes, etc.; but there will be billiards and a gymnasium. Some of the patients are employed in the workshops, others in doing housework. No patient, unless infirm, is kept in-doors in fine weather; and the strait-jacket is but sparingly used. P