Measures taken in care units to prevent contagious diseases from being spread among patients, health care workers, and visitors

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An den Congress zu Rastadt über die Ausrottung der Blattern = : Au Congrès de Rastadt sur l'extirpation de la petite vèrole / B.C. Faust.

Small hospital at the harbour at Chiavari, Italy: section, facade and plan. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1826.

The lazaretto of Varignano at La Spezia: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1832.

Quarantine section of an Italian port. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1813-1820.

An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.

Small hospital at Camogli port: facade, floor plan. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1825.

The lazaretto of Varignano at La Spezia: sections and floor plans. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, c. 1825.

The lazaretto at Foce: section, facade and floor plan of part of the hospital. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1825.

'Pest house' (isolation hospital in times of plague), Tothill Fields, Westminster, London. Lithograph, c. 1840.

The lazaretto at Foce: facade and floor plans. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1824.

The lazaretto of Varignano at La Spezia: floor plan. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, c. 1825.

Nottingham: a verandah open to the air with a bed and a cot, each containing a child being treated for acute illness. Photograph, 1893.

Fourth annual report of the Watford and District Isolation Hospital 1897 / Robert A. St. Leger, Medical Superintendent.

Hospital isolation of scarlet fever / by W. St. C. McClure.

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Patient Isolation

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Nottingham: a verandah open to the air with a bed and a cot, each containing a child being treated for acute illness. Photograph, 1893.

Fourth annual report of the Watford and District Isolation Hospital 1897 / Robert A. St. Leger, Medical Superintendent.

An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.

An den Congress zu Rastadt über die Ausrottung der Blattern = : Au Congrès de Rastadt sur l'extirpation de la petite vèrole / B.C. Faust.

Hospital isolation of scarlet fever / by W. St. C. McClure.

Patient Isolation

Images from the collections

Images referencing Patient Isolation

Works from the collections

Nottingham: a verandah open to the air with a bed and a cot, each containing a child being treated for acute illness. Photograph, 1893.

Fourth annual report of the Watford and District Isolation Hospital 1897 / Robert A. St. Leger, Medical Superintendent.

An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.

An den Congress zu Rastadt über die Ausrottung der Blattern = : Au Congrès de Rastadt sur l'extirpation de la petite vèrole / B.C. Faust.

Hospital isolation of scarlet fever / by W. St. C. McClure.

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