ofcantly
au
rando a tune wmurou s
xiliary accommodation and staff: they thers increase both the cork both of. form General hospital purposes its in Illies, admitted that the number of beds in a ward should be limited rather by the number which may safely be confided to
tracied nurse than by
Construction and maintenance and
the charge of are
the attempt to serve a theoretical classification
in' practice
of patients which is seldom attainable.
wind Hospital. In the present case
adoption of a
however, the small number of beds per ward are evidently dictated not
is
by considerations of the above nature but by the fact that the arrangement of
the
wards on the site make short wards a
necessity that it is hardly necessary
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Inter further into the question : it way, I think, be assumed that a Plan which can provide for 24-bed wards would be considerably less costly and at least equally Efficient. In any case the large wards would have to be supplemented by single bed wards for the
isolation of acute case.
Passing
now to the
Auxiliary accommodation, the nurses' room
14'x
too small for
the nurses,
and their inspection windows give such a very
imperfect command of the ward : The ward
Sculleries open directly into the wards in
the central wards the nurse's work will be
greatly increased by the fact that her room
is at one end of the ward and the ward scullery at the other: connected with the nurses' rooms