The arrangement and construction of school sanatoria : a paper read before the Association on January 11th, 1887 / by Charles E. Paget.

  • Paget, Charles E. (Charles Edward)
Date:
1887
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Credit: The arrangement and construction of school sanatoria : a paper read before the Association on January 11th, 1887 / by Charles E. Paget. 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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    Among small Infirmaries, I know of none more admirable in arrangement than those which have been carefully described and illustrated by Dr. E. Thorne Thorne,* whose great experience in the uses and management of hospitals is above dispute, and has been permanently established by the records of his investigations.t School Sanatoria, following the lines of these, should be recognised not so much as houses for the storage of infectious cases, but rather as isolation-buildings arranged in prospect of probable numbers of initial cases, and of those secondary cases which may occur in consequence of the accidental oversight of the earliest sources of personal infection. Class I. I have drawn a sketch-plan (A) of what, in addition to an administrative building (E) with two small general wards on the first floor, may be found to meet the requirements of schools of the size indicated. The general wards may contain one or two beds each. The infectious diseases wards contain six beds, arranged so that four cases of one disease and two of another can be isolated at the same time, with special isolation of one case more seriously ill than the other ; or the whole building can be used in emergency for six cases of one disease. By dotted Hues it is further shown how, with very little trouble and ex- pense, the Sanatorium can be enlarged to the extent of three beds more, so as to make a total of nine beds—four for one disease and five for another. The nurse for each class of disease can have her bedroom on the floor above, to be approached by a small spiral stair- case fixed in each verandah. Class II. The administrative building and general wards being the same as in the former class, the infectious-diseases wards may Epidemiological Transactions, N.S., vol. iv. t Supplement to the Tenth Annual Eeport of the Local Government BoarJ [c—32'JO].