Medical and surgical report of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York . FIG. 12—ANOTHER METHOD OF BED DRESSING. PARTLY THE OPEN AIR ROOF-WARD. By W. p. Xorthrup, , Attending Physician. The last Medical and Surgical Report, Vol. VII, 1906, con-tains a plea for the construction of an all-the-year-around open-airroof-ward on the medical pavilion. We now have it. A friend ofthe Hospital has financed it, the Hospital management have builtit. For nearly two years this open-air ward has been in generaluse for children and adults, medical and surgical, acutely sickand convale
Medical and surgical report of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York . FIG. 12—ANOTHER METHOD OF BED DRESSING. PARTLY THE OPEN AIR ROOF-WARD. By W. p. Xorthrup, , Attending Physician. The last Medical and Surgical Report, Vol. VII, 1906, con-tains a plea for the construction of an all-the-year-around open-airroof-ward on the medical pavilion. We now have it. A friend ofthe Hospital has financed it, the Hospital management have builtit. For nearly two years this open-air ward has been in generaluse for children and adults, medical and surgical, acutely sickand convalescent. So far as we know, this is the first experiment of its kind, con-sequently a review of the work of the ward and the general im-pression of its adaptability to the purposes for which it wasplanned, may be of value. In May, 1905, children were first taken to the unimprovedroof for systematic open-air treatment. The doors of the sun-room and elevator were too narrow for the passage of adult beds,so it resulted that this treatment was limited to children. Cribson wheels, rolling stretchers, wheel-chairs and carrying in arms,were th
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