Volume 3

Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment / by G.A.T. Middleton ... assisted by a specially selected staff of contributors.

  • Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas)
Date:
[1905]
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Credit: Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment / by G.A.T. Middleton ... assisted by a specially selected staff of contributors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in this way, and devoted to a general hospital, which is surrounded by a carriage way, beyond which again and in direct line with the entrance corridor is found a large block devoted to the engines and dynamos, and to a washhouse. Behind this block, and well screened, is the principal mortuary, which in detail is divided into several parts, one being devoted to post-mortems, and another having a viewing room for use at inquests. The north-west corner of the site is given up to an infectious division, separated from the general hospital by a neutral zone covered with trees, its kitchen, its entrance, and its exit alone being accessible from the main hospital. This is shown in greater detail in Fig. 19, where the kitchen appears as an entirely detached block, connected Between each of these pairs of blocks there are single- bed wards, while the general wards contain eight beds each, and are planned very similarly to the wards of the Bedford Hospital, with the exception that there is no end verandah and only a single sanitary block to each ward. It may here be mentioned that, in the general portion of the hospital, the beds are not so greatly separated as they are at Bedford, but are placed in pairs along the wards. A special provision has to be made at Chatham for officers, who have a separate block devoted to them in the infectious division. As a rule officers are not treated in the general hospital, as, except in cases of accident, they go home when taken ill, but of course when they are suffering from anything infectious they D151NrfCTlNC STATION BLACKSHAW ROAD. TOOTING. S.W. H.J.MARTIN.(micq 5UKVEY0R.£?IST£/ffl 0/3L Fig. 20. with the wards only by a long covered way, which the kitchen servants never enter, the food being served through a hatchway on to tables in the waiting-room, whence it is fetched away by the nursing staff. The surgeons’ quarters are located alongside the covered way, so that they also are disconnected. The entrance is in the centre, through a small detached block con- taining waiting-rooms, and a few small observation wards for single patients, where any cases can be retained about which there is doubt until the disease fully develops. A central covered way passes from this block through a staircase block, by means of which, on the upper floors, the two central wards are reached by bridges. In this way the central wards are coupled on the upper floor, whereas they are detached on the ground floor where the outer wards are coupled. are removed at once to the hospital, and there they have to be kept distinct from the men. As far as possible they would be given single-bed wards, but not necessarily so. The great object in an infectious hospital is to have ample air space and plenty of sunshine, and this is obtained. There is a covered way along the south side of the officers’ block, where patients could be taken out in good weather. The nursing sisters are provided with a special little block of their own, quite distinct from anything else, while in another part of the ground, close to the other mortuary, occurs the infected mortuary, again with visitors’ room and viewing-room. Every hospital of any size is equipped with a com- plete laundry with a special arrangement for disinfection of the clothing. The disinfecting station belonging
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