A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards . ularward could certainly be better utilized in a ward ofrectangular shape. That this waste space (for it cannot properly beused for any purpose whatsoever,) does not exist insmall circular wards may also be seen by referring toplate [63, page 129. The reason for this is that ashospital beds are spaced about eight feet apart oncentres, be the ward large or small, the individualfloor space for each bed in a circular ward must be asector, the vertex of which would be at the centre ofthe Avard. In wards of l
A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards . ularward could certainly be better utilized in a ward ofrectangular shape. That this waste space (for it cannot properly beused for any purpose whatsoever,) does not exist insmall circular wards may also be seen by referring toplate [63, page 129. The reason for this is that ashospital beds are spaced about eight feet apart oncentres, be the ward large or small, the individualfloor space for each bed in a circular ward must be asector, the vertex of which would be at the centre ofthe Avard. In wards of large diameters these sectorsmust be narrower than in smaller wards (becausetheir chords are nearly alike,) and the distributionof floor area becomes worse as the sector becomesnarrower. The size of the rectangular ward on plate 62,page 127, is 24 feet x 75 feet, perimeter 198 feet,area i,Soo feet, height 16 feet, containing 28,800cubic feet, or 1,600 cubic feet for each of the 18 diameter of the circular ward on the same pageis 63 feet, circumference 198 feet, area 3,117 feet,. Plate 62, Page Capacity of Circular and Rectangular Wards of equal perimeter. I2S HOSPITAL AND :\r CONSTKrCTIOX. height 16 feet, eoiitaiuini; 49,872 culjic feet, or about2,375 ^^^^^ic ^--t for eaeh oi the 21 beds. The beds in eaeh of these wards are drawneiofht feet on centres: therefore it is evident thatquite a large circle could be removed from the centreof the circular ward and lea\-e a space l)etween theconcentric circles, wliich would give eaeli bed 100square feet, or the same area as in the rectangularward. The area of the circular ward is 3,117 squarefeet, and the dotted circle has a diameter of nearly36 feet and contains 1,017 square feet, leaving aspace between the circles of 2,100 square feet for 21beds, or 100 square feet each. This space cannot beused for stairs, for a direct communication would bemade with the ward above; it cannot be utilized fora central fire p
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