Hospital plans : five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals / contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins hospital of Baltimore.

  • Johns Hopkins Hospital
Date:
1875
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Credit: Hospital plans : five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals / contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins hospital of Baltimore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the building will be mainly depended upon for its archi- tectural eifect, excluding as much as possible all merely decorative features, for, while it is intended to construct the edi- fice with a pleasing and expressive external effect, the principal effort will be to make it a well-arranged, pleasant, and healthy homo for the orphans, contributing at the same time to discipline and instruction. No. 2—Is a plan of the basement and furnace cellars of the building. No living rooms are located in this basement, Avith the exception of rooms for the engineer, firemen, and laborers in the front part of the centre building, the floor of whicli Avill, how- ever, be ventilated by a space and air-ducts below, and areas on the outside walls. The engine-room and laundry will be on this floor, in the extreme back-centre building, and so located on the premises as to bring that floor entirely above ground. The uses of the various apartments on this floor are designated on the plan. No. 3—Plan of first or principal floor; the uses and sizes of the various apartments are designated on the plan. To the extreme wing on the left is attached an ample terrace, directly accessible from the infants' department for their exercise in fair weather. At the back of the two main stairs for the children, indicated by an arrow on the plan, the stairs lead down to a platform on a level with the grounds outside, giving a direct connection with the school-rooms by three large doors. Side entries from the outside are also provided for direct access to the dining-room, also outside access to the basement floor. Three dumb-waiters, accessible from the basement, are provided for the convenience of conveying food, etc., to the infirmary department on the third floor. Besides the main front stair, a sepai-ate service stair con- Jiects the infirmary directly with the culinary department. Clothes and dust shafts are also amply provided. Ample kitchen, scullery, pantry, and store-rooms, besides a domestics' dining-room, are embraced in the extreme back-centre building. By means of rolled iron girders, the columns of the two iii-)]^er floors of the extreme front-wing buildings can be avoided if judged desirable. No. 4—Shows plan of the second floor ; the uses of the various rooms are all designated on the plan. The domestics' chambers and sitting-room in the extreme back-centre building afford