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 . In all the large general hospitals ofEurope, departments for the care of in-fectious diseases are provided and gen-erally consist of separate, detachedbuildings, being complete units and di-vided into small wards with completeservice rooms and equipment. Amongthose which are particularly interestingtechnically are those at Eppendorf, Vir-chow, West End Berlin, and Lindenberg-Cologne. But perhaps no hospital inEurope h
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 . In all the large general hospitals ofEurope, departments for the care of in-fectious diseases are provided and gen-erally consist of separate, detachedbuildings, being complete units and di-vided into small wards with completeservice rooms and equipment. Amongthose which are particularly interestingtechnically are those at Eppendorf, Vir-chow, West End Berlin, and Lindenberg-Cologne. But perhaps no hospital inEurope has carried the newer principlesof infection to a higher development thanthe Pasteur Hosj)ital in Paris. ceding my visit, with a service of nearlyfive thousand cases, showed the cross orinternal infection to be only two to thethousand! PViends are allowed to visit the pa-tients, communicating with them fromthe open balcony provided for the pur-pose. This balcony extends in front ofall rooms. In an interview with Dr. Louis Mar-tin, the Director of the Pasteur, andfrom his book,* Hygiene Hospitaliere,the writer gathered the following facts:(a) The service is divided into two. rnHiTiTirj[: KIG. 150. HOSPITAL, PARIS. FLOOR PLAN. When in 1907 I visited the PasteurHospital for the first time and saw casesof scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria,sleeping sickness, and other communic-able diseases side by side in one build-ing, within i)lain view of the nurse andvisitor and separated from each otheronly by plate glass partitions, I was verymuch surprised. My training had beenthat to care safely for contagious casesone must, at least, have separate depart-ment, if not sej^arate buildings. Whatwas my greater surprise to find that whilethese various diseases were in the samebuilding and being cared for by the samenurse, the record of the five years pre- sections—that for the very ill patientsand that for convalescents. Betweenthese two sections are the servicerooms (Fig. 150) and f
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