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 . air. At the new General Hospital atVienna, out-door air is introduced di-rectly above the radiator, as shown inFig. 321. Many medical men and hospital ex-perts agree that the patient in bed, ex-cept in special cases, should not have ahigh temperature in his room. Theyagree that Nature calls for changes intemperature—that the man in robusthealth demands them; that the patientwho is building up his strength shouldnot be
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 . air. At the new General Hospital atVienna, out-door air is introduced di-rectly above the radiator, as shown inFig. 321. Many medical men and hospital ex-perts agree that the patient in bed, ex-cept in special cases, should not have ahigh temperature in his room. Theyagree that Nature calls for changes intemperature—that the man in robusthealth demands them; that the patientwho is building up his strength shouldnot be denied them. A certain professorin a technical school used to say to hisclass that the ideal temperature is thatof a sunny June dayin-a^ New Englandpine forest. Such an ideal does not in-. FIG. 323. DETAIL OF VENT FLUE AT FLOOR. FIG. 324. DETAIL OF VENT FLUE ABOVEFLOOR. \ olve an even temperature of sixty-eightdegrees for the entire day. Manufacturers of various apparatusespride themselves on controlling the tem-perature of a room to a fraction of adegree, as shown by chart record (). This would not seem to be con-ducive to the best results, exceptingunder certain conditions. The breathed air in a ward or roomshould be in some way removed, andthe means for ventilating so located asto insure a complete circulation of the room is large, there should bevents at top and bottom, with dampers,so that the air can be drawn from eitherone or the other, by properly adjustingthe damper. The vent ducts should start at thefloor, and the floor material extended 198 THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL to the back of tlie flue iFig. ^25), orthe bottom of the flue curved so that nodust shall remain in it. In no case shoulda register face be used to clo>e the open-ing at the floor. Ho
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