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420 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Notes On Hospitals. By Florence Nighting...
was main found tain the to same be far me from dium tempera and ture the nigh death t and -rate day , became the air
alarmingly high . Miss Ni pure ghtingale , ' s comment upon this in and teres tha ting t as fact it , is , tha tural t we for shoul t d fol t ure w , t o t oppose cont N inuall ature ,
and especially to be always lower empera by night th vary an hy day , this y , coun varia t t erac ion t it ar t be tificiall most con can genial therefore to heal onl th , be and injurious an attempt This to
is indeed no more than y gardeners had alread y y discovered . with regard to vegetable life , plants being found to thrive far better
in greenhouses when the temperature is suffered to decline at nig I h t than spring when beds always teads kep with t hair uniforml mattresses y warm are . recommended ,
straw paillasses being quite inadmissible , as being so cold , that the " in patient some cases 's vital the abstraction to a degree of heat which from does the not spine leave lowers him
a chance of recovery energy . " Other furniture should be of oak , and all eatingdrinkingand washing vessels of lass or earthenware .
The " pavilion , " t , hus described is to contain g only the patients , their nursesand the officers immediatelreuired for the ward
and the Hosp , ital is a large or a small y one q according to the , essen number tial however such pavilions that these should which be built t is composed at a , i distance t being
from each other in proportion to their height , and proper it then only remains to arrange them in the best practicable manner so as
the to form adminis a whole trati , v and e offi to connect bmeans them of with each arcades other and . It with is satisfactory to find that a mode y l hospital open as perfect in all its
details as the present state of sanitary , knowledge and mere construc fi t ive skill t of w the ill imag admi ina t , is tion not but desti will ned be lon realized g to remain in the
new Herbert g Hospital now in cours , e of erection at Woolwich , which ce when leted will he bfar the finest hospital
, compy Several establishment equally in well the -p United lanned institutions Kingdom , o for r indeed the sick in or Europe infirm . "
are also soon to be built in Malta . Homes A separate which chapter Miss Ni is devoted tinale to conside Convalescent rs should b Hosp e vie itals wed as or
, gg incontrovertible essential adjuncts rule to that ordinary recovery Hosp is ital retarded s , laying if it a d patient own as an do
then not leave still unfit the latter to return as to soon every as - he day is occupations able to do , so a , transitional and being
hosp establishment ital conditions becomes are a almost necessity reversed . In building the great s of point this being kind ,
row to mak of e partiall the institution y detached as cottages much is as therefore possible , like recornmended a home . as A
the best form of construction .
420 Notices Of Books.
420 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/60/
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