Principles of hospital construction.

  • Smith, Stephen, 1823-1922.
Date:
[1865?]
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Credit: Principles of hospital construction. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PRINCIPLES HOSPITAL CONSTKTJCTTON. I.—A Civil Hospital, designed for the treatment of acute conditions of location- disCaSCS, both Medical and Surgical, should be located so as to be easily accessible by that class of people who will seek ad- mission to its wards, and by the attending medical officers. II.—When a country site can be selected which will fully country site preferred. answer the foregoing requisites, it should be preferred to a location within the limits of a populous town. III.—But if these conditions can not be fulfilled, except by site-when the choice is limit- locating the hospital within the corporate boundaries of a ed to the city. town, a district should be selected as far removed from popu- lous suburbs as a due regard to accessibility and availability will permit, IV.—Within the limits finally fixed upon, a site should be Advantages to bo secured in lo- chosen which will secure the following advantages : cation. 1. A sufficient amount of ground. 2. Freedom from the immediate neighborhood of pres- ent and prospective nuisances; as manufactur- ing establishments having foul and unhealthy emanations, a crowded tenant-house population, depots for cattle and swine, etc., etc. 3. Sufficient elevation to render the surface and sub- soil drainage perfect, and to give to the hospital grounds proper exposure to the currents of air. 4. A subsoil porous and self-draining, and as free as possible from organic matter; hence avoiding old grave-yards, cattle-yards, etc.