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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    such a person. At Boston and Walsall, for example, the need of one has been acknowledged to be indis- pensable, and provision has been made for him by building a lodge in the grounds. The man would have charge of the garden and grounds, also of the whole working of the earth-closet system, such as the drying, renewing, and emptying of the earth: he would be required to assist in carrying bad ac- cidents into the wards, and in removing corpses to the mortuary: he would help at operations, and act as messenger or gate porter—in fact, such a person would find abundant employment if care be taken that a man is chosen for the post who is willing to make himself generally useful. He and his wife might per- haps occupy a cottage at the entrance to the grounds. In that case they would act as gate porters, while a wash-house might be built close to the cottage, where the wife could manage the washing of the establish- ment. The kind of earth used for closets is of importance. It should be of a loamy, porous nature, as a sandy soil is of little use. It must also be well sifted, otherwise it soon blocks up the orifices. In the summer time it may be dried in the sun, and in winter the kitchen fire may be utilised for the purpose, by employing one of the cheap drying stoves made by the Moule Closet Com- pany. To wander again from the subject we may point out how serviceable a gift a small greenhouse would be from a generous donor. Here the earth could be dried for the purposes of the earth-closet, and