. A treatise on hygiene and public health . gale : Notes on Hospitals. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION. 759 Square wards vs. long.—In contradistinction to the long pavilionwards, those more nearly square in form have been adopted at the Massa- I I :i=-=izzc: SUN ROOM H Z] FIREELACE i 111 . 5 ,.^. J. % _a jU I LAVATORY > -^ ^Ti ^ O O ! O BATH 71 SCULLPRY CHINA CLOSET J SIUK \ / CLOTJHIIMG\ =3 c CORRIDOR ■I 1-1 LI Lll r ■» I —1 r ■ IING ROOM Dl 1 Fig. 34.—Folsoms plan,chusetts General and other hospitals, apparently with good results. recommends that such wards sho
. A treatise on hygiene and public health . gale : Notes on Hospitals. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION. 759 Square wards vs. long.—In contradistinction to the long pavilionwards, those more nearly square in form have been adopted at the Massa- I I :i=-=izzc: SUN ROOM H Z] FIREELACE i 111 . 5 ,.^. J. % _a jU I LAVATORY > -^ ^Ti ^ O O ! O BATH 71 SCULLPRY CHINA CLOSET J SIUK \ / CLOTJHIIMG\ =3 c CORRIDOR ■I 1-1 LI Lll r ■» I —1 r ■ IING ROOM Dl 1 Fig. 34.—Folsoms plan,chusetts General and other hospitals, apparently with good results. recommends that such wards should be 56 by 43 feet, these 760 geio:kal principles of hospital construction. dimensions being calculated for 23 patients. A central chimney andventilating stack occupies the middle of the ward, is provided withopen fireplaces and registers, and affords abundant means for says: The advantages of a nearly square room with a central stackare: the privacy of each bed, as compared with its situation in a long hall. 2 E V=^ without obstruction to the view; the absence of draughts, the fireplacesand warm-air supply being nearly equally distant from all parts of theward, and the chimney stack, by its volume and position, interrupting andmixing accidental air-currents; and the ease of administration, the bedsbeing nearly equidistant from the supplementary rooms of the ward. The great objections to the plan proposed by Dr. Folsom seem to be Plans for Jolins Hopkins Hospital. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION. 761 the too close proximity of the water-closets to the wards; that the sun-light does not so completely reach all parts of the ward in the squareform as in the pavilion proper; and thatthe entire ward cannot be so fully underthe supervision of the nurse. The sun-room or glazed porch is, however, a verydesirable feature, and can be more advan-tageously attached to the square than to thelong ward. Ward adjuncts.—The adjuncts of theward are the
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