The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research : history, organization and equipment.

  • Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Date:
1912
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Credit: The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research : history, organization and equipment. 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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    floors, are enclosed fire-escape stairs leading from the ground to the roof. The only difference in the use of the three ward floors is that on the fourth floor the large, centre room on the south of the corridor contains a hydrotherapeutic equipment and light and vapor baths, while the corresponding space on the fifth floor is occupied by a special diet kitchen, and, on the sixth floor, by a constant-tempera- ture room for experiments in metabolism. The seventh floor is occupied exclusively by laboratories, those for chemical work being placed at the eastern end, the biological labo- ratories at the western end, and the physiological in the centre. The chemical laboratories are provided with water under forty pounds’ pressure, gas, electricity,compressed air and vacuum. A balance room, an animal room, a large constant-temperature vault, and two stacks of refrigerators each containing nine compartments are included in the equipment of this floor. I'he eighth floor or “ roof” has a small operating suite intended rather for occasional or emergency use than for the regular accom- modation of surgical cases, a doClors’ wash-room, a closet for warm- ing blankets, a kitchen for the service of patients who may be placed on the roof, a photographic and X-Ray suite, a special room for the storage of mattresses (the mattresses being hung vertically), toilet rooms for patients, and rooms for the ventilating fans. Doors at the centre and ends of this floor open on large roof spaces, the space at the centre, with southern exposure, being sheltered overhead. The ventilation of the building is of the simplest description. The hoods in the kitchens and laboratories are operated by fans on the eighth story, as are also the flues leading from the two large fire- places on the inner wall of each ward. Similar artificial ventilation is provided for certain other rooms, but in general the wards and single rooms depend upon the windows and doors for their ventilation. ISOLATION PAVILION The basement of the Isolation Pavilion contains a special laundry and sterilizing apparatus for the clothing and bedding of infeded patients, the infedled material being dropped through a trapdoor in the receiving room above, into a chamber whence the only com- munication with the laundry is secured by passage through the steril- izers. Also in the basement are found a clinical laboratory, an order- lies’ room, and service rooms. The main floor of the Pavilion is divided by a corridor running east and west. On the southern side are seven single rooms, sepa- [ '6 ]