Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : and chapters on mortuaries, the relative mortality of large and small hospitals, and cottage hospitals in America : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett.

  • Burdett Henry C. (Henry Charles), Sir, 1847-1920.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : and chapters on mortuaries, the relative mortality of large and small hospitals, and cottage hospitals in America : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    with but limited water supply, and requiring the purest possible air ; the earth-closet system can be laid down at less cost than that for water-closets, and is less liable to get out of order ; and it will also enable us to utilise the rain-water for purposes of ablution, and to narrow down the amount of drainage required. There is, lastly, the further advantage of being able to use movable earth-closets in the wards for those patients that are unable to leave their beds, so that the whole system may be on one uniform plan. Next, as to the working details of the earth-closet system. The only drawback is the amount of labour required, and, in overcoming this difficulty, we must enter a little into household arrangements. Connected with the hospital should be grounds cheerfully laid out for the exercise of patients, and perhaps a kitchen garden. In a country district this will be one of the least difficulties. Land is cheap, and there is almost always a good strip connected with such a building as we should choose to transform into a hospital. If building a new hospital, the site and a good piece of ground will pro- bably be given by the local magnate. To keep the grounds in order will require the partial or entire ser- vices of a man. It is needless to say that we urge the employment of such a person about the place, and we think there will be abundant employment for him in innumerable ways. The want of a man about the premises seems to have been much felt in several of the larger class of hospitals, and the managers have been obliged to make provision for the services of