Description of the models of hospitals / J.J. Woodward.
- Army Medical Department
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Description of the models of hospitals / J.J. Woodward. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![is done bore. Tho paint shop is a small room next the printing office. It is well supplied with painting materials. * [ A small buildinn; has been constructed north of the commissary building, to be used as a Carpenters nhop. All tho necessary repairs for the hospital are prepared here. | The Officers' quarters are situated at the eastern front of the hospital, and are well located, convenient, and pleasant. Tho building is i! stories in height, with 7 cliam- bors, kitchen, batli-room, and water-closet on the first floor, and 7 chambers, bath- room, and water-closet on the second. The Bormitoi-ies/(»• Cooks and Matrons are situated over the kitchen and laundry. The guard are quartered in hosj^ital tents. The Administration building is situated in the middle of the centre oval, and is connected with the main corridor and officers' quarters by a transverse conndor run- ning at right angles to the long diametar of tho oval. In it arc situated most of tlie offices of the hospital, viz: The offices of the surgeon in charge, executive offic::r, ' assistant executive officer, mihtary assistant, general office for clerks, reception-room for officer of the day, officers' mess-room, dispensary, r.nd store-room. The offices areallsmaU; but being centrally situated, are very convenient to all parts of the hospital. I The dispensary is well arranged and ample. i The Knapsack-room is on the second floor of the commissary building. It is pro- 1 vidcd with boxes for every bed, and is conveniently r.rranged. Each ward lias jnctiil I checks, with the number of the ward and niunber of the bed stamped upon thorn. | When patients are received these checks are placed upon their baggage, and it is then stored away in the approi^riato boxes. • The water of the hospital is supplied by the Germantown water-works. The \ water bills are all estimated on the basis of 30 gaUous per diem for each inmate of \ the hospital. Wells are now being dug, which it is su])posed will supply all the water needed. Two of the wells are ah-eady construct,:d, and about .S,()00 gallons -i per day are xnpcd from them. Tho water from tho wells is of very good quality. The wator is distributed through tho hospitnl by means of galvnnized-iron pipes, and in ease of accident or fire two main reserve tanks, with a capacity of 30,000 ^ gallons, are kept filled to supply deficiencies. Over tho northern and southern portions of the corridor are placed 2 large tanks, .' with a capacity of 3800 gallons each, the water in which is heated by steam ; these 1 supply the hot-water for bathing, pantry, and other purposes. * A similar tank of the same size, heated by steam, is placed over the kitchen, to supjily it with hot-water. , The drainage of the hospital is arranged as follows: One line of 12-inch tile pipe surrounds the whole of the hospital buildings, just outside of tho line of the fence, \ with 4-inch pipes leading into the same from the lavatories, bath-rooms, and water- closets of each ward. Another line of 12-incli pipe sun-ounds tho inner oval at the margin of tho corridor, with 4-inch pipes leading into it from the kitchen sink.s, laun- i dry, wash-tubs, and water-closets. Both 12-inch mains connect on the southeastern i portion of tho hospital, and empty into a cess-pool about 150 yards in the rear. The ' cess-pool is 20 feet in diameter. The overflow from it is led by means of a drainage i tile into the Wingahoeking crock. The solid materials are cleaned out from time to time as iho pool becomes filled. Ventilation, Heating, &c.—Each building is furnished with ridge ventilation, and in the wards there are also floor ventiL.tors between tho windows, capable of being closed by sliding frames. T'ie openings are flush with the floor and 8 inches square; there are 27 to each ward. The openings in the ridge are covered by falling shut- ters, which are elevated and lowered by jndleys. < The hospital is heated by stoves; these are watched at night during the cold \ season by an organized fire-guard, the same guard doing duty in the wards and corri- { dors as watchers during the warm weather j The hospital is lighted by gas from the Germantown gas-works. The water-closets are 9 feet 5 inches long by (i feet wide. The apparatus consists of a cast-iron sink !) feet long and 12 inches wide, covered by a board pierced with holes; a faucet supplies the water, and a trap removes it whenever it bocomes i necessary. ' Each ward has also a cast-iron drip or sink for washing dishes and other work.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22280558_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
