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 . h P oto <: -Q« .H <; 1)H c O ^•«S H o a >* CO 62 THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ing suite will be taken up in later chap-ters. The operating department of the Hospital (Fig. 72) at Hamburgis one of the most carefully worked out,so far as hygienic detail is attention is given to the heatingand ventilation (Fig. 72>) ; the air iswashed and filtered before entering theroom, and the direct hea
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 . h P oto <: -Q« .H <; 1)H c O ^•«S H o a >* CO 62 THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ing suite will be taken up in later chap-ters. The operating department of the Hospital (Fig. 72) at Hamburgis one of the most carefully worked out,so far as hygienic detail is attention is given to the heatingand ventilation (Fig. 72>) ; the air iswashed and filtered before entering theroom, and the direct heating units are en-tirely outside the walls. The equipmentis most carefullv designed. The accident department, on theground floor, gives access for ambulancepatients; the elevator reaching the firstfloor level. On the ground floor arethe receiving and waiting rooms, thetwo accident rooms, laboratories, morgueand store rooms. On the first floor are the operatingrooms, with two anesthetizing rooms,which are placed in the center of thebuilding, with skylights, and are enteredeither from the main corridor or from. FIG. n KJT Tl°oK. -PLA/H o QUINCY CITY HOSPITAL. OPERATING F. Stevens, Architect. PAYIUOM In the operating department of GraceHospital, Detroit (Fig. 71), there arethree rooms for clean surgery, besidesthe septic, surgical dressing, and plasterrooms. The surgeons locker and dress-ing rooms are outside the clean portionof the department. Here the room forscrubbing up is not connected with thelocker room. There is a large sterilizingroom and a larger room for the nurseswork of preparation; also an instrumentroom where each surgeon has his owncompartment in the instrument case, etc. The operating building of the Yoimgs-tozvn Hospital (Fig. 74), Youngstown, is two stories in height, and is dividedinto two sections—the accident and theoperating proper. the operating corridor. This makes itunnecessary for the patient to enter theoperating corridor
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