Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . the armies during the late War of the Kehellionin America, in which Ihe or pavilions weredisposed in a radiating form around a circular court,from 10(1 lo !.)(» feet in diameier. according to thesize of tlie bospilal. A plan of Kicks Hospital nearBaltimore. .Md., issonie-liiiies given as a has a mess dining-room in one of the radi-ating buildings, ralherlarger than tlie others,and oflices and other ad-iiiiiiistralive buildings-in the court. A betterplan was carried out inthe hospital at PointLookout. .
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . the armies during the late War of the Kehellionin America, in which Ihe or pavilions weredisposed in a radiating form around a circular court,from 10(1 lo !.)(» feet in diameier. according to thesize of tlie bospilal. A plan of Kicks Hospital nearBaltimore. .Md., issonie-liiiies given as a has a mess dining-room in one of the radi-ating buildings, ralherlarger than tlie others,and oflices and other ad-iiiiiiistralive buildings-in the court. A betterplan was carried out inthe hospital at PointLookout. . in whichthe Administration A-partments, Dispensary,JIcss-rooms, and Sur-geons Quarters wereplaced in a large build-ing occupying a site a-mong the other radia-lingliuildings. The ad-vantage is apparent inthe open court that isunobstructed in res^ardto currents of air. and inthe great cheerfulnessof such arrangement,whicli admits of a freeview from one ward toall the others, allowingthe convalescent patients whomay be sitting in tlieir respective porticoes to greet. tlorton Lfltlie-rhuck. each other; for wounded and sick soldiers, wlienthey are able to be so, are a very social fraternity. For two charges place a trough on the shortest line The central court can then be laid out in plats of the one to the other, mark the center of it, and | and flower-beds, in the care of which the patlentslet the principal trough join it at that point. For take great pleasure during their often Ioulcontine-three charges connect, as above, the two which are nient and absence from faniily. The plan lif the Lin-nearest. Let a trough lead from the middle point i coin Hospital at Washington was the arrangementof this to the third charge ; bisect the whole length of the wards in the form of an isosceles triangfe, theyof trough lietween this third charge and either of the 1 being placed en e^/ielon, \vith the base of the triangleothers ; then let the principal trough be joined to I being le
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