Approved plans and specifications for post hospitals / Surgeon General's Office.

  • United States. Surgeon-General's Office.
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Approved plans and specifications for post hospitals / Surgeon General's Office. 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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    IV.—Approved Plan?for a Provisional Hospital. Plate K gives a ground plan for a Provisional Post Hospital of 8 beds, to be constructed of logs, adobe, or lumber, as circumstances may permit. This plan is given simply as a guide to be followed in cases which admit of no delay and for the use of temporary encampments. It is supposed that Regulation Hospitals will usually be built of wood, but brick, stone, or other material may be used when deemed more economical. I and II.—Specification of Labor and Material to be used in the Construction of a Regulation Post Hospital of 24 or 12 Beds.—Plates A, B, C, D. Note.—The plans referred to in the following specifications are also given in working drawings on a scale of i inch to one foot respectively, a set of which will he furnished by the Surgeon General when required for actual use. Excavation. * The excavation for piers, or trenches for footings, will be dug to sizes specified, made level, and well rammed on the bottom. The earth displaced will be deposited on the ground as may be directed. Mason Work. Tlie sills of the building and veranda will be supported on stone or brick piers or timber posts. If stone piers are used, they should be 2 feet by 1 foot 4 inches, built of large flat-bedded stones, laid to break joints. If brick piers, they shall have a stone footing, 2 by 2 feet, and 6 inches thick; and the brick work shall be 18 by 18 inches, of sound, hard-burnt brick. In either case, the piers to be built in good lime mortar, composed of good strong lime and clean sharp sand. If wooden posts, they should be of cedar or locust, not less than 8 by 8 inches. The piers to be carried to a sufficient depth in the ground to secure from frost. The chimney flues shown on plan to be built of. good merchantable brick, of sizes in clear shown, thoroughly plastered inside, and provided with 6-inch earthenware or sheet-iron thimbles, and tin caps to receive stove-pipes when required. The chimneys above the roof will be built of hard-burnt, selected brick, with cap as shown. Carpenter Work. The frame will be a balloon frame, sills 6 by 8 inches, all resting on stone or brick piers, or timber posts, as above specified; two cross sills will be put to each ward, and the sills of the rear building will continue through the main building. All the sills will be mortised, tenoned, and pinned to each other. The studs will be framed or notched into the sills, and, together with the joists, strongly and securely nailed to the sills with proper nails. The studs for exterior walls will be notched at ends to fit into the sill mortise, and will be 2 by 6 inches, placed 16 inches from centres; doubled at all corners and openings, and well braced and bridged where necessary, being braced at the corners at least 5 feet up on the stud, and bridged over all openings. The joists of second floor will be carried on a ribbon, 1 by 4 inches, let into and strongly nailed to studs. Partition studs will be 2 by 4 inches, placed 16 inches from centres, strongly braced and bridged. All the joists will be 2 by 10 inches, placed 16 inches from centres, strongly spiked to studs, and will have three rows of herring-bone 1 by 1 \ inch bridging in the width of ward building, and one row in width in other spans. The ceiling joists will rest on a wall plate, spiked to the studs in two thicknesses of 2 by 4 inch stuff put on to break joints. The ceiling joists will be bridged as the floor joists are described to be. The roofs of main building and wards will be constructed of 2 by 8 inch stuff, the roofs of back building, etc., of 2 by 6 inch stuff. The roof of administration building will have 3 by 12 inch hip rafters resting inside on partitions. The rafters will be placed 2 feet apart. The rafters for wards will be placed 2 feet 8 inches apart. * For specification for cistern see page 8.