The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . FIG. 153. ST. LUKES HOSPITAL, JACKSONVILLE. ISOLATION IN SINGLE FIG. 15-). ST. LUKES HOSPITAL, JACKSONVILLE. ISOLATION IN SERVING KITCHEN. OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 113 bathed on the shallow tub-slab with aspray, so he gets what is practically ashower bath or champoo in runningwater. He is then placed in a singleroom. When convalescent, he is trans-ferred to the small ward where the
The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . FIG. 153. ST. LUKES HOSPITAL, JACKSONVILLE. ISOLATION IN SINGLE FIG. 15-). ST. LUKES HOSPITAL, JACKSONVILLE. ISOLATION IN SERVING KITCHEN. OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 113 bathed on the shallow tub-slab with aspray, so he gets what is practically ashower bath or champoo in runningwater. He is then placed in a singleroom. When convalescent, he is trans-ferred to the small ward where theremay be other patients recovering fromthe same disease. This ward is treatedas a unit, but the aseptic technique isstill carried out. A portable tub (Fig. 153), similar inprinciple to the one in the admitting roombut made of wood covered with copperfor lightness, set on a wheeled stretcherframe of the same height as the beds, isalso provided. This may be taken to anyroom, the patient transferred to it, andbathed with a spray attached to thefaucet at the scrub-up sink. A floordrain in each room receives the wastewater from the tub. The tub is disin-fected after each using. When the patient has recovered and is to be discharged, he is taken throughthe open
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