The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . hung on the end of eachbed. This contains not onlv the toilet 96 THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL articles, but the towel also. Of coursethis necessitates the taking of these arti-cles to the toilet room wlicn they are tobe used. The prevalence of contagious diseasesin a childrens hospital is so much greaterthan in the hospital of the adult that ftis desirable to have a section of the hos-pital planned and set apart for the care
The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . hung on the end of eachbed. This contains not onlv the toilet 96 THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL articles, but the towel also. Of coursethis necessitates the taking of these arti-cles to the toilet room wlicn they are tobe used. The prevalence of contagious diseasesin a childrens hospital is so much greaterthan in the hospital of the adult that ftis desirable to have a section of the hos-pital planned and set apart for the careof such diseases. This departmentshould be treated the same as the con-tagious hospital—that is, there should be children can sometimes be quieted moreeasily by pictures on the walls than inany other way. Simple illustrationsfrom Mother Goose, stenciled at a con-venient height for the children to look at,IS one way of providing for this. Oneof the most attractive wards which thewriter has ever seen was in the childrensdepartment of the St. TJwmas Hospitalin London (Fig. 132). tiere the wallswere lined the entire height with tilesdepicting interesting incidents in child. FIG. 132. ST. HOSPITAL, CHILDRENS WARD. a certain number of cubicles or roomswhere each individual bed is screened,and the same care maintained in the treat-ment of cases as in the contagious hos-pital. Here the orthopedic service is. as ageneral thing, greater than in the hos-pital for adults, and it is decided econo-my, if the hospital is large, to have a de-partment for the manufacture of cor-rective apparatus, as is well illustratedin the Hos])ital for Sick Children inToronto and in the Rujitured and Crip-pled Childrens in New York,which will be mentioned later in thischapter. The requirements for operating roomsand surgical dressing rooms do not difTerfrom those described in the chapter onthe ward unit. The question of color and decorationis one which requires careful study. The
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