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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    the amphitheatre building and the pavilions connected with it be at first cheaply constructed and temporary in character. The relative merits of the plans submitted can be appreciated only by reference to the probable cost; either of them can be carried out on the temporary or permanent plan, and either of them will, in my opinion, be satisfactory, so far as the healthful- ness of the institution is concerned. Taking the plan of Plate TV., if the buildings be made of brick, I should estimate the cost as follows: 14 one-story pavilions, brick, at $14,000 each $196,000 Administration building 60,000 Central building and machinery 90,000 Amphitheatre and one-story pavilions, wood 40,000 Total 386,000 If all the pavilions in this plan were made temporary struc- tures they would cost about $8,000 each, the cost of the other buildings remaining the same. This would make the total cost $302,000. On plan of Plate V., the cost may be estimated as follows : 6 two-story pavilions, brick, $27,000 each $162,000 Administration building 60,000 Central buildings and machinery 90,000 Am]phitheatre and one-story buildings attached 40,000 8 pavilions for private patients, $20,000 each 40,000 Total 392,000 Taking all things into consideration, I should myself prefer the plan given in Plates Y. or VI., as I think with proper administra- tion it would give results the same as No. 1, while the cost of man- agement would be not less than $10,000 per annum in its favor. As the main approach to and view from the Hospital is to the west, the buildings are arranged with reference to that fact, and the architect will see that by breaking the lines of the adminis- tration building, either by central or end projections, or both, and repeating the composition in the lateral pavilions attached,