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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 419 s

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    Notes On Hospitals. By Florence Nighting...

    corridors or with the . A general pavilion _administratiye is indeed a separate offices , except detached by hosp liglit ital airy , which passages has , or or other art of the

    tial hosp ought feature ital to as have if of it , the as were pavilion little reall connexion y construction a separat in e its establishment is ventilation that of breaking with miles any up away hosp . itals The p of essen any - administra

    tion size into but a nothing number else of in separate common detached . And parts the object , havin soug g a ht common is that the atmos- - ward phere , but of no should one pavilion escape or into ward the should open diffuse air as speedil itself to y any as possible other p , avilion while its or .

    place , is supplied by the purest attainable air from the outside . " If the staircase "be in the centre , th t e pav t t ili h may l be divided

    into two wardsbut it is desirable haisoud be y one if floor third in he story ight ; , two added floors it becomes can with care tremel be kept difficult health to y main , but

    a y nurses tain a moderat Wards e should amoun be t of at health least 15 am feet ong hi eith h er and patients then orgmay

    contain . 32 bedswhich is as many as a head nurse , can properly overlook as to allow , bu 1500 t the , cubic lengt feet h and of breadth mus bed t . be The so p windows roportioned in

    num each much b th er sunsh , t to less allow i than as of ossi thoroug b f or ever space to obtain ven y t per wo tila which beds tion , , mus the also t aspect be t o of p admi osi , the te t

    res desidera p avilion pect f t should or um the some ne wa be t l east hin ls , p g ceiling and being west s , , required and . A floors m which ateri of al hosp shall suitable it be als wash , in is every yet able a

    fireproof yet texture non- absorbent and , not ight of ; cheerfu for such the a l former tint nature ; and it as must to for chill the also the latter be feet of should of uniform those be

    b who est subs stand , tance or wal for k on lls it . that Parian has e cement t been , tried polished and , forms k wood the

    b the the absorbing licat capability ion of bees of ' wax which and y ha _, turpentine s been furth , and er diminished which can ,

    approach be y kept app clean to a good by wet floor , and but dry neither rubbing of thes , aff e , materials ds the neares fulfils t

    all the conditions desired . the After minor lay details ing down of the these best primary position princi and ples fittest of construction furniture for , well

    decision nurses the very ' rooms important on this , bath point point s , sculleries being of the iven , best & c unhesitating , method are discus of ventilation s ly ed in , as favour , the as of

    the simp windows le easy p It lan of ordinary g some fire- surprise places with to those good who fires hav and e

    open . may cause for been invalids accustomed to learn to lay that great in stress one hosp on ital uniform in Pari temperature swhich was "

    peculiarl elaborate y system well , constructed of artificial in warming every oth and er respect ventilation , but , was where intro an - the floors

    and duced admitted , which drew fresh off warm the air foul by air means by openings of pedestal near s , so as to , *

    Notices Of Books. 419 S

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 419 s

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/59/