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AN OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN
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consulting-rooms receive zenith light from skylights by setting the first storey back a little from the ground floor. In the operating theatre the same method of lighting has been followed ; air entering the theatre is filtered through cheese-cloth stretched on wire frames which can easily be taken out and
AN OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT FOR
made
CHILDREN ADDITIONS TO THE INFANTS HOSPITAL
ofcleaned.
ON Oct. 31st the new out-patient department the Infants Hospital, Vincent-square, London, will be opened by the Princess Royal, president of the hospital. The department is the first part of the extension scheme to be completed ; the scheme provides, in addition, for a new ward block for 76 patients, the reconstruction of the existing hospital, and the conversion of the old out-patient department into a new nurses’ home. It was originally intended
On the top floor, at roof level, is
stored in a large refrigerated cupboard. The basecontains a series of cubicles in which children found to have infectious diseases can wait until the ambulance comes for them. Behind the chapel is a mortuary and a pathological laboratory where postmortem examinations can be carried out. Bodies will be
patient depart-
a
owing economic
but the
unnecessaryclean. ing and polishing.
depres-
The rubber or teak-block floors can be cleaned quickly with a mop ; the doorhandles are made of some sort of
curtailed. Apart from this omission the department has been equipped to meet the needs of the hospital, and the architect, Mr.
compositionwhich actually defies cleaning. Even the stairs are slightly
C. Stanley Peach, has shown consideration for
undercut to prevent dust collecting on their faces.
patients, doctors, and nurses alike in his design. The patient’s point of view.-
A slight falling-off in this admirable principle may be observed in the
arriving
at the department can park per-
brass hand-rail, but it is believed that constant use at the handsWire of the public will help to keep this burnished. takes the place of railings on the stairs and round the central well. A special sloping slab is provided for the washing of napkins, and specimen will be kept in small cupboards communiby means of wire gauze with the outer air. in the linen cupboards can be taken out slats The
ambulators, with reasonable an
refrigerated
The nurses’ point view.—An attempt has been made to avoid all
be
in
in
of
sion, plans had to
Mothers
placed
chamber.
ment should make provision for antenatal care of
to
diet
ment
tnat tne new out-
mothers,
a
kitchen and milk laboratory, entirely cut off from the part of the building used by patients. Milk will be
safety, alley-way
between the new building and a neighbouring row of houses. They enter on the ground-floor level, and wait in the out-patients’ hall which occupies the centre of the building and is lighted from above by a glass roof. The hall is rubber-floored At one corner the and automatically heated. dispensary waiting-room opens out of it, and here a buffet is provided at which mothers can fortify boiled ; large heated cupboards are provided to Doors from the warm blankets. All the doors are fitted with selfthemselves with tea and buns. hall lead into consulting-rooms, the weighing-room hinges and the walls are covered with cellulose A gallery runs round paint. and the almoner’s office. General equipment.-The, windows are made on a the hall at the level of the first floor, and from this open ear, nose and throat, and eye departments, special design : the top and bottom panes are hinged X ray and massage rooms, a room for light treatment, along their upper and lower borders respectively, and another for plastering, and a fully equipped theatre open inwards to an angle of 45°. The central pane in which minor operations can be performed, and is divided into two lattices with vertical hinges. It next to which a large recovery room has been setis therefore possible to maintain ventilation by apart. Patients therefore need make no excursions opening the top and bottom panes while avoiding to distant parts of the hospital when examination in any chance of being overlooked by closing the two a special department is required. In the basement, central panes. A series of emergency batteries are entered by a separate door, is a small blue-tiled chapel being continuously charged and will come into action and a waiting-room for relatives. in case of failure of electric light power from the main. The medical 8taff’s point of view.-Each consulting- The equipment also includes water-softening, refrigeraroom is supplied with an X ray view-box lighted from ting, and ice-making apparatus. The new block behind and a basin with running water ; heating is communicates with the hospital on every floor, the by the ceiling panel system, and gas fires are built passages entering the hospital between floors so that into the wall for use in emergency. The ground floor none of them are exactly on a level with the wards.
glass
napkins
cating and
closing
I
consulting-rooms receive zenith light from skylights by setting the first storey back a little from the ground floor. In the operating theatre the same method of lighting has been followed ; air entering the theatre is filtered through cheese-cloth stretched on wire frames which can easily be taken out and
AN OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT FOR
made
CHILDREN ADDITIONS TO THE INFANTS HOSPITAL
ofcleaned.
ON Oct. 31st the new out-patient department the Infants Hospital, Vincent-square, London, will be opened by the Princess Royal, president of the hospital. The department is the first part of the extension scheme to be completed ; the scheme provides, in addition, for a new ward block for 76 patients, the reconstruction of the existing hospital, and the conversion of the old out-patient department into a new nurses’ home. It was originally intended
On the top floor, at roof level, is
stored in a large refrigerated cupboard. The basecontains a series of cubicles in which children found to have infectious diseases can wait until the ambulance comes for them. Behind the chapel is a mortuary and a pathological laboratory where postmortem examinations can be carried out. Bodies will be
patient depart-
a
owing economic
but the
unnecessaryclean. ing and polishing.
depres-
The rubber or teak-block floors can be cleaned quickly with a mop ; the doorhandles are made of some sort of
curtailed. Apart from this omission the department has been equipped to meet the needs of the hospital, and the architect, Mr.
compositionwhich actually defies cleaning. Even the stairs are slightly
C. Stanley Peach, has shown consideration for
undercut to prevent dust collecting on their faces.
patients, doctors, and nurses alike in his design. The patient’s point of view.-
A slight falling-off in this admirable principle may be observed in the
arriving
at the department can park per-
brass hand-rail, but it is believed that constant use at the handsWire of the public will help to keep this burnished. takes the place of railings on the stairs and round the central well. A special sloping slab is provided for the washing of napkins, and specimen will be kept in small cupboards communiby means of wire gauze with the outer air. in the linen cupboards can be taken out slats The
ambulators, with reasonable an
refrigerated
The nurses’ point view.—An attempt has been made to avoid all
be
in
in
of
sion, plans had to
Mothers
placed
chamber.
ment should make provision for antenatal care of
to
diet
ment
tnat tne new out-
mothers,
a
kitchen and milk laboratory, entirely cut off from the part of the building used by patients. Milk will be
safety, alley-way
between the new building and a neighbouring row of houses. They enter on the ground-floor level, and wait in the out-patients’ hall which occupies the centre of the building and is lighted from above by a glass roof. The hall is rubber-floored At one corner the and automatically heated. dispensary waiting-room opens out of it, and here a buffet is provided at which mothers can fortify boiled ; large heated cupboards are provided to Doors from the warm blankets. All the doors are fitted with selfthemselves with tea and buns. hall lead into consulting-rooms, the weighing-room hinges and the walls are covered with cellulose A gallery runs round paint. and the almoner’s office. General equipment.-The, windows are made on a the hall at the level of the first floor, and from this open ear, nose and throat, and eye departments, special design : the top and bottom panes are hinged X ray and massage rooms, a room for light treatment, along their upper and lower borders respectively, and another for plastering, and a fully equipped theatre open inwards to an angle of 45°. The central pane in which minor operations can be performed, and is divided into two lattices with vertical hinges. It next to which a large recovery room has been setis therefore possible to maintain ventilation by apart. Patients therefore need make no excursions opening the top and bottom panes while avoiding to distant parts of the hospital when examination in any chance of being overlooked by closing the two a special department is required. In the basement, central panes. A series of emergency batteries are entered by a separate door, is a small blue-tiled chapel being continuously charged and will come into action and a waiting-room for relatives. in case of failure of electric light power from the main. The medical 8taff’s point of view.-Each consulting- The equipment also includes water-softening, refrigeraroom is supplied with an X ray view-box lighted from ting, and ice-making apparatus. The new block behind and a basin with running water ; heating is communicates with the hospital on every floor, the by the ceiling panel system, and gas fires are built passages entering the hospital between floors so that into the wall for use in emergency. The ground floor none of them are exactly on a level with the wards.
glass
napkins
cating and
closing
I