Notes on hospitals / by Florence Nightingale.

  • Florence Nightingale
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes on hospitals / by Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    INDEX TO SUBJECTS. PAGE What it is proposed in this book to say i I. SANITARY CONDITION OF HOSPITALS i Hospital influence on cases in hospital 2 High death rate in hospitals in large towns 3, 4 Death rate not the only statistics wanted ^ Hospital-diseases and daily change in cases better tests . . . 6, 7 Explain what infection is, and do away with the idea con- tagion 8—10 Four Defects to which Hospital-diseases are due : 1. Agglomeration of sick under one roof 11, 12 2. Deficiency of space per bed I3j^4 3. Deficiency of fresh air i5> 16 Its greater necessity for sick 17 4. Deficiency of light 18, 19 Note on the Mortality of Hospital Nurses 20, 21 Note on the History of the Doctrine of Contagion 22 Note on the Crowding of many Patients into each bed at the Hotel Dieu at Paris in past times 23, 24 II. DEFECTS IN EXISTING HOSPITAL PLANS AND CONSTRUCTION 25 I. Selection of Bad Sites and Bad Local Climates for Hospitals 26, 27 Comparison of London and Paris 28—30 Four elements for a good hospital position 29 Don't bring sick out of fresh air into foul, as in a town hospital 31 b
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