A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards . elative position of pavilions,the most popular is the arrangement in which theirmedial lines are parallel with each other. The rea-sons for this are, that in even the largest institutions,sufficient land to place them any other way andsecure the requisite accomodations is frequentlyunobtainable, and because they all bear the samerelative position to the points of the compass andreceive the sun alike. This arrangement may beadvantageous for oblong pavilions receiving the sunprincipally on one or two sides
A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards . elative position of pavilions,the most popular is the arrangement in which theirmedial lines are parallel with each other. The rea-sons for this are, that in even the largest institutions,sufficient land to place them any other way andsecure the requisite accomodations is frequentlyunobtainable, and because they all bear the samerelative position to the points of the compass andreceive the sun alike. This arrangement may beadvantageous for oblong pavilions receiving the sunprincipally on one or two sides, but is not of somuch importance in locating octagonal or circularpavilions which may receive light and sunshineequally well from any direction. In all hospitals there have been attempts tocompletely isolate surgical and medical the best pavilion plans, there has been,according to the number of stories, a distance of 50to 100 feet between the pavilions when placed par-allel with each other. This is undoubtedly suf&cient,because contaoious diseases should not be received. o X w 7^ n > < u M—< oo o w Td H rri <; -^ PL, W l8 IIOSPITAI. AND ASYLUM CONSTRUCTION. in common with other cases. Regarding the dis-tance between them, it may be governed entirely bythe height from the first floor to the top of cornice,and most writers have decided (when they havementioned it at all) that twice the height of thepavilion is snflicient (meaning from the gronnd).It should be borne in mind that this is to allowdirect sunlight to shine into the sides of the lowerwards as early and as late as possible, as well as tosecure satisfactory isolation. Attention is called to the following cut showingthe advantage of a low pitched roof, and the writerhas adopted for his guidance a rule which is givenhere for what it ma}- be worth.
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