A few additional suggestions, with a view to the improvement of hospitals for the sick and wounded / by John Roberton.

  • Roberton, John, 1797-1876.
Date:
1858
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    A few Additional Suggestions, with a view to the Improvement of Hospitals for the Sick and Wounded. By Mr. John Roberton. [Read March 31st, 1858.] In a former Paper, on defects in the construction and ventilation of English Hospitals, read March 20th, 1856,* I endeavoured to shew that the insalubrity of a number of our Hospitals arises mainly from two causes — first, the difficulty, owing to faulty construction, of securing a free circulation through the wards, and a continual renewal therein, of the external atmosphere; and second, the intimate connec- tion existing between the different wards in each storey by means of doors and passages, and between the different storeys by inside stairs — an arrangement which favours the rapid diffusion over the house of the foul air generated in any one of the wards, and consequently the creation of an Hospital atmosphere. I further attempted to shew that, by adopting a plan of construction such as may be seen in the beautiful Hospital at Bordeaux—the structure which has supplied a model for the best Hospitals in Paris and Brussels — all the difficulties hitherto experienced in English Hospitals, with reference both to the ventilation and to the proper isolation of ' every single ward, may easily be surmounted. I * Reprinted in the form of a Pamphlet (mcluding the Hthographed sketch ; of the ground plan of the Bordeaux Hospital), from the Transactions of the j Manchester Statistical Society, May following, and forwarded to the medical officers of the London Hospitals; to the heads of the Army medical department; to the officers of the General Board of Health, &e.