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 . es room are placed in the center. The ward itself, containing twenty-sixbeds, is divided into eight sections, eachsection containing three or four beds. Adividing screen affords privacy to thepatients and still allows free access toall parts of the room for the atten-dants. The screens, only six feet highand raised one foot from the floor, affordthe same ventilation as an open for surgeons use and medicinec
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 . es room are placed in the center. The ward itself, containing twenty-sixbeds, is divided into eight sections, eachsection containing three or four beds. Adividing screen affords privacy to thepatients and still allows free access toall parts of the room for the atten-dants. The screens, only six feet highand raised one foot from the floor, affordthe same ventilation as an open for surgeons use and medicineclosets are placed in each ward. This is doubtless one of the best de-veloped ward units in Europe. In the Bispehjerg Hospital (Fig. 23),the ward unit is interesting, sixteen bedsbeing the largest ward. The entire de-sign of the group is simple and dignified,and rather different from the stereotypedstyles one sees throughout Nyrop has taken advantage ofthe natural contour of the land in the useof terraces, steps, and landscape effects. The details of the various equipmentwere very carefully devised. In the Munich-Sehzvabing (Fig. 24) THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL. FIG. 21. PLAX OF WARD UXIT-RIGS HOSPITAL, COPEXHAGEX, DEXMARK. unit the largest ward is twelve beds. Allwards face the south and have oppor-tunities for wheeling patients into thebalconies and into the gardens. The bal-conies are spacious and comfortable withattractive boxes of flowers decoratingthem in summer. The service rooms areto the north, also the laboratory anddressing rooms. The day room is to thesouth, central with the unit.
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