Healthy hospitals : observations on some points connected with hospital construction / by Sir Douglas Galton ; with illustration.

  • Galton, Douglas Strutt, 1822-1899.
Date:
1893
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    calorigen passes into internal walls, and the area of the outside walls is comparatively small in proportion to the cubic contents of the building, this heat would not neces- sarily be wasted ; but in the case of a hospital, in which the principle of construction is, that the area of the outside walls should be large as compared with the cubic space, and in which the warmed air has to be conveyed to considerable distances through underground passages connecting the various buildings, and which afford large surfaces from which the heat can pass away unused, the question of loss of heat becomes material. Moreover, the calculation of the heating surface to be fixed in a warming chamber, when the air to be heated is put in motion by mechanical means, either by an aspirating chimney or by propellers, is a more complicated one than when the heating surface is fixed in the space to be warmed. (4) Necessity of enabling the occupants of each ward to control the temperature of air admitted. In the supply of air to hospital wards, the temperature at which the inflowing air enters the ward is of great importance. It is the province of the medical man to say what tempera- ture should be maintained in the wards. Hence where the warming depends on the temperature of the air, there must be some subsidiary means of influencing the temperature of the air before it enters each ward, placed under the control of the ward attendants^ beyond that afforded by the central calorigen. In cases where the inflowing air is admitted as supple- mentary to an open fireplace, a temperature of 54° to ^6° should generally suffice for the inflowing air. But where employed as the only source of warmth it should, in this country, probably enter the wards at a temperature of not less than from 58° to 64°. Indeed, some diseases, such as those of the respiratory organs, may require an even temperature to be