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 . an in-stitution, we do receive from them valu-able suggestions for the solution of manya perplexing hospital problem. The gen-eral relation of one department to another,the method of preparing and servingfood, the housing and treatment ofpatients, the orientation and environ-ment, and the proportion of sunlight andshadow are some of the things uponwhich we may receive hospital which would be perfect
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 . an in-stitution, we do receive from them valu-able suggestions for the solution of manya perplexing hospital problem. The gen-eral relation of one department to another,the method of preparing and servingfood, the housing and treatment ofpatients, the orientation and environ-ment, and the proportion of sunlight andshadow are some of the things uponwhich we may receive hospital which would be perfect andwhich would fulfill the climatic condi-tions of southern France, however,would be entirely unsuitable in ournorthern states. If we can put the European hospitalon our dissecting table and remove thepart we cannot use, we will still have apretty good portion of the body this metaphor T do not assume thathospital architecture is a dead subject—far from it. It is very much alive. Onlylast week our medical co-worker asked tohave provision made for a patient in awarm, closed room, with hot baths; yes-terday, the same patient was to be kept OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. FIG. 1. GENERAL PLAN, RUDOLPH VIRCHOW HOSPITAL. in the open air; today, ice baths are pre- the ideal ward unit; in another, a service scribed; and we must study the chnics building of peculiar fitness; and in still very closely to find out what will be another, the perfect floor (although the wanted tomorrow, for the hospital archi- ideal hospital floor does not seem to have tect must meet the latest demand. been discovered yet). One institution In one foreign institution we may find will have an ideal operating or medical THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL department, while in others the architectswill have solved new problems in detailand equipment. The twentieth century hospital,whether built in Spain, Russia, or theUnited States, has one common condi-tion in its program—that is. to give thepatient the best ehaiice f
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