The war demonstration hospital : its plan and construction . dry buildingfor disinfection and washing; it is thenreturned to the storage room at the rightend of the Receiving Building. Dis-charged patients return to this building,where their records have been kept,secure their valuables and clothing, dressin the small room adjoining the office, andturn in their hospital clothes. The surgeon on duty in the ReceivingBuilding has a small office. He keepsfirst aid supplies there, in case they are needed to replace a dressing. He ex-amines all arriving patients and deter-mines the order in which th
The war demonstration hospital : its plan and construction . dry buildingfor disinfection and washing; it is thenreturned to the storage room at the rightend of the Receiving Building. Dis-charged patients return to this building,where their records have been kept,secure their valuables and clothing, dressin the small room adjoining the office, andturn in their hospital clothes. The surgeon on duty in the ReceivingBuilding has a small office. He keepsfirst aid supplies there, in case they are needed to replace a dressing. He ex-amines all arriving patients and deter-mines the order in which they are to bebathed and sent into the operating roomor wards. The OperatingPavilion The Operating Pavilion is of especialinterest in a war hospital. For thisbuilding, 105 feet in length, the widertype of unit, 28 feet wide with walls10 feet high, has been adopted. Thebuilding lies east and west, so as to insurenorth light all along one side. Of the two entrances, one to the east isreserved for doctors, nurses and orderlies, 12 The War demonstration Hospital. The Completed A itchen and the other for patients. Orderliescoming for t heir supply of sterile bandagesfor the wards do not pass beyond thevestibule at the east entrance. At the east end is a large work roomfor nurses, and next to it a sterilizingroom easily accessible from the OperatingRoom. Scrub-up basins are in the Operat-ing Room. The Etherizing Room, almost directlyopposite the patients entrance, givesaccess both to the Operating and PlasterRooms, while the west end of the buildingis occupied by the X-Ray service; withdark room, demonstration, and storageroom. [ The WardPavilions The plan of the wards follows veryclosely that of an ordinary surgical hos-pital of peace times. Running north andsouth, the services are grouped at thenorth end, so as to allow the free entranceof the winter sun at the south end. Thisarrangement, while not a necessity insouthern climates, is most desirable in acountry like France, where ever
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