Report of the Medical Relief Committee of the Radcliffe Infirmary presented to the Quarterly Court, January 28, 1874 / [ed. by] Hugh Hamersley.

  • John Radcliffe Hospital. Medical Relief Committee.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Report of the Medical Relief Committee of the Radcliffe Infirmary presented to the Quarterly Court, January 28, 1874 / [ed. by] Hugh Hamersley. 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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    dows on three sides. Each Ward is allotted to contain seventeen patients. The other rooms on this floor are used for the Board-room, Clerk’s-room, Surgeon, Matron, &c. On the second floor there is a Ward at each end, with windows on three sides, for seventeen patients to each. There is also a Ward over the main entrance occupied by children, with windows on one side only, containing eight beds. On this floor are bed-rooms for the Matron, for the House-Surgeon, and for some of the Nurses. In the upper or attic floor there are four rooms allotted as Wards. One at each end for thirteen beds each, one for seven beds, and another for four beds. The tops of the windows in this floor are barely 6 ft. 6 in. above the floor level, and a great part of the Ward-space is gained by carrying the ceiling into the slope of the roof. The Wards on this floor are; not fit for sick, and they have not adequate water-closet or scullery accommodation, and they should be turned to other purposes. On this attic-floor is placed the Operation-room. This room is not of suffi- cient size to allow of students witnessing operations—it is lighted by a skylight; and adjacent to and opening out of it, are two small rooms where patients can be placed, but they have no fire-places. The Nurses occupy rooms on the second and attic floors, the number in each room varying according to size. Subsidiary to, but separated from the main building, are two other buildings containing accommodation for patients. One, termed the new building, has a Ward for two beds, and a Ward for three beds on the ground-floor, neither of which is satisfactory for patients; and a Ward for five beds, and one for four beds on the first-floor. The other rooms in this building are occupied by Nurses. The second of these subsidiary buildings is of recent erection for fever cases. It contains two Wards for eight patients each, with Nurses’ rooms and scullery, one on the ground
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