[Fundraising appeals].

  • Leeds General Infirmary.
Date:
[1900?]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: [Fundraising appeals]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    Cookridge contain 632 beds, all of which are in constant use, with the result that when a rush of acute cases takes place, improvised beds have to be made up which are put down the middle of the ward, resulting in overcrowding, with constant worry to both the medical and nursing staffs. This is again accentuated by the necessity of having to send patients out of the Infirmary before they are really fit to go in order to use the beds for other urgent cases waiting to come in, which is extremely regrettable from the patient’s point of view. It is proposed to raise the present accommodation from 632 to 800 beds by the addition of two new ward blocks, to be built on sites reserved and available on each side of the present King Edward Extension. FRONT ILLUSTRATION AND BLOCK PLAN OF THE TWO NEW WARD BLOCKS. 1 The first block, to be built on the West side, would consist of three wards, which are to be joined up to the King Edward Extension by means