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. 181. PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL, , Taylor & Co., Architects. OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 129 Dr. Owen Copp, executive officer of theState Board of Insanity. The development of this institution inMassachusetts has given the State a mag-nificent psychopathic building whichforms the clearing-house, as it were, forthe larger insane institutions throughoutthe state. The building is E-shaped, a plan giv-ing the g
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. 181. PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL, , Taylor & Co., Architects. OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 129 Dr. Owen Copp, executive officer of theState Board of Insanity. The development of this institution inMassachusetts has given the State a mag-nificent psychopathic building whichforms the clearing-house, as it were, forthe larger insane institutions throughoutthe state. The building is E-shaped, a plan giv-ing the greatest number of rooms ex-posed to the best light and air. It is fourstories in height and will accommodateone hundred and ten patients. The pa-tients are generally admitted at the am-bulance entrance on the first floor, lead-ing from the side street. On the first floor (Fig. 179) there aretwo admitting units, one for each sex,divided by a general corridor. Theseunits consist of two admitting wards offive beds each, general treatment rooms,baths, isolation rooms, etc. Connectedwith this section are the operating andemergency department and the offices forthe admittin
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