A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards . ^; PI, Waiting RoomI, Office; J, Kitchen ; K, Pantry and China Closetly, Dining Room. Proper ventilation can easily beobtained in the Sun Rooms to admit of their beingalso used as Smoking Rooms without affecting theair of the ward. Other plans for Hospital stewards quarters, asrecommended by the War Department are interest-ing, although in the specifications for a building tocost not to exceed $1,200, the clause The requisiteprovision to be made for the support of the rearchimney upon the stud partitions


A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards . ^; PI, Waiting RoomI, Office; J, Kitchen ; K, Pantry and China Closetly, Dining Room. Proper ventilation can easily beobtained in the Sun Rooms to admit of their beingalso used as Smoking Rooms without affecting theair of the ward. Other plans for Hospital stewards quarters, asrecommended by the War Department are interest-ing, although in the specifications for a building tocost not to exceed $1,200, the clause The requisiteprovision to be made for the support of the rearchimney upon the stud partitions below is ^ ^1 .- - ^ :/3 CHAPTER OF HOSPITALS. Much lias been written upon the permanencyof hospitals, or pavilions connected with them, andprobably on this there is a greater difference ofopinion than on any other subject. There is noquestion but that poor materials, in a badly con-structed hospital, are productive of evil sanitaryresults and that a renewal of them should occasion-all}^ be made. There is, also, no question but thatthe c[uality of much of the better class of Avorkdone at the present day is far superior to what wasproduced in some of the older buildings now being,or about to be, abandoned. It would seem that the existence of hospitalismat the present day is generally produced by bacteria(floating in the air or water supply,) and to nosubject has so much recent study been given by themedical profession. There can be no question butthat in time, and perhaps at no far-distant time, theknowledge of bacteriology will be increased to suchan extent that hospitalism, sep


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