. The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. (1861-65). Prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon general Joseph K. Barnes, United States army . . ^1 o c If if ill IT. At the Baxter Hospital, Burlington, Yt., the added pavilions i^rojected lengthwisefrom one side of a covered corridor which had the former Marine hospital at one end as anadministration building. As the intervals between the pavilions were 48 feet wide, it is 924 THE GENERAL KOSPITALS. evident that there was ample space at command, and that this arrangement was in no


. The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. (1861-65). Prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon general Joseph K. Barnes, United States army . . ^1 o c If if ill IT. At the Baxter Hospital, Burlington, Yt., the added pavilions i^rojected lengthwisefrom one side of a covered corridor which had the former Marine hospital at one end as anadministration building. As the intervals between the pavilions were 48 feet wide, it is 924 THE GENERAL KOSPITALS. evident that there was ample space at command, and that this arrangement was in no way-constrained by local conditions, but was regarded by those who adopted it as the best thattheir experience enabled them to devise. The wards were arranged in a similar manner atthe Crittenden Hospital, Louisville, Ky., where a covered corridor 8 feet wide ran alongthe rear of seven pavilions, and at the Tilton Hospital, AVilmington, Del., where sixpavilions were similarly associated. The plan of the Tilton hospital is submitted on theopposite page as an illustration of this method of arrangement. The covered corridor, orig-inally intended as a bond of connection and means of communication between the variousparts of t


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