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418. NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Notes On Hospitals. By Florence Nighting...
o health tliat ther when y disorders ? are sick insufficien should persons t l , y who supp are lied ted niore wi and th susceptible propagate fresh air , d f than ever amongst and
thegenera them . Miss _N . sums up the matter thus : — of " The air obvious will prevent practical it results All of this own view hosp of ital infection experience is tliat confirm abundance s this _^
of conclusion carelessness pure . If or infection of ignorance exists . . , ' it my is _preventible . If it exists , it is the result
roo The f ' which u _agglomera has been tion the of a lar t g f ruit number ful source of s o ick f d under isease and one
mortality and , infirm in ities ins , t ituti , in former professedl day y s , f carried or the i cure to so t f human ghtful 1200 ills an
beds extent th that ere were in the some old times Hotel as D many ieu , of as 7000 Pars , patients conaining , of whom onl , 3 out of 4 on an left the lace alive ; nayin 1515
t when og y ether there as were close onl as y 303 t average hey beds could , from lie 8 in t t o t ha 12 t p in atien 1530 , and ts were it some , pac times onl ked _^
in even turn then that the the over sick flo could w was so t the grea use of a bed at all was one par y t of the hospital furniture being ge a bench stowed under , each
bedsu stead fferers , to who be drawn were wai ou ti t wh th en ei r t q uired for , as the a rever rest for ion t he f ev poor en
perhaps it w a quarter t uncommon or a sixth g for -part 4 si of ck a bed le . to Less be than laced a togeth century er
ago as no peopp in now one loo bed ked in the everyw Hot h el er Dieu e as . indispensab Separate beds le , but are the of course space f
it area allotted cannot especia to be each lly compensated being is often so far importan for less by th t an that sanitation extra the undue hei requires htening restricti , sur of on the ace of
st building ancesMiss so as Ni to afford htingal more e insis space ts any th above at . Under bed g any requires circum " a -
, gevery territory After pointing to itself of out at various least 8 other feet wide defects by in 12 existing or 13 long hosp . " itals , bad
ill such -arranged as inefficient laundry ventilation departmen , imperfect t , & c , Miss drainage N . , proceeds cookery to ,
bl shadow ocks of forth buildings the ideal closing of what round a hosp a ital central should court be . ; no No centre large the air
with wings at right angles forming corners where may be arrangement stagnate allowed ; no as pronounced series the proper of back to form - combin to-back for e a wards every hosp , ital attainable with , but dead the advantage walls one , sole can
is that of the Pavilion . ' separat " The e pavilions first princi . p B le y of a hosp hosp ital ital pavilion construction is meant is to divide a detached the sick block among of ; of beds that be laced
baths safel buildings quite y , unconnected in water , it capable , - together closets of with , all containing with any comp suitable other lete the , pavilions proportioned nurses largest ' number of rooms which to , ward the the hosp number sculleries ital can may of , lavatories sick consist p , and , ,
418. Notices Of Books.
418 . NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/58/
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