File:A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards (1891) (14754695316).jpg

Identifier: treatiseonhospit00hamm (find matches)
Title: A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hammond, George Frances, b. 1855
Subjects: Hospital Design and Construction
Publisher: Cleveland, O.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
^ the writer is the one in connection withthe Roosevelt Hospital, in New York, erected byDr. Jas. W. McLane and known as the MclvaneOperating Room. The exterior is shown on page Sy, plate 42, andhe arrangement on page 89, plate 43. The letters indicate divisions as follows:— A, Hxamination Room in main building; B,Hall; C, Wardrobes ; D, Stack ; H, Preparation andEtherizing Room; F, Students entrance from gar-den ; G, Operating Room; H, Ventilator in ceiling ;I, Sky-light (shown on plate 42) in ceiling; J, BrassRail; K, Room for washing utensils used in opera-ting room ; L, Surgeons Wardrobes; M, Lavatory ;N, N, Fifteen Registers in walls near^ floor. Out-side of the rail are benches for students. The flooris marble mosaic; the walls are of white marble toa height of about 8 feet; the wood work and remain-der of walls is painted a cream white color; theexposed plumbing pipes are of polished brass, andunlike most exposed Avork is kept constantlycleaned.
Text Appearing After Image:
Plate 43, Page S9.Plan of the McLane Operating Room, Roosevelt Hospital, N. Y. 90 HOSPITAL AXD ASYLUM CONSTRUCTION. Indeed, the chief siiperiorit)^ of this room isthe cleanliness of it, and the care bestowed on theglass and metal furiiitnre, the instrnments sub-merged in the anti-septic preparations and theabundant supply of fresh warmed air indicated bythe writers anemometer. If a gallery is desired, no better example canbe found than in the operating room of the BradleeWard of the Massachusetts General Hospital inBoston, Reference is made to the illustrations ofit on pages 91, 93, 95, plates 44, 45, 46. The wallsare lined with marble to the underside of the gallery,and the floor is of asphalte. A number of smallrooms are arranged for the care of instruments andutensils, and rooms for the preparation, or recoveryfrom ether^ of patients are provided. The gallery is not arranged as an amphitheatre,consequently a large number of observers cannotbe present at an operation—which is well

Note About Images