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Title: The war demonstration hospital : its plan and construction
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, author
Subjects: Hospitals, Military Hospital Design and Construction
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rmitory and a few roomsfor sergeants, a sitting room and a roomfor cleaning equipment, boots, etc. IV CONSTRUCTION OF THEBUILDINGS With the exception of the Stores Build-ings, which is of ordinary shack construc-tion, all buildings are of portable houseunit construction. Walls, floors androofs are formed of wooden panels,except in the Operating, Kitchen andLaundry Buildings where concrete hasbeen used. In the early days of the war suchbuildings were erected with a singlethickness of material for walls, but it veryshortly became apparent that the wallsmust be double with an air space betweenthe outer and inner sheathing. At thesame time the desirability of double roofsand floors was recognized. The Frenchhave found that even a double-walledtent is preferable to the single-walledbuilding. The HumphreysSystem A study of the various types of con-struction led, as has been stated, to theadoption of the Humphreys system, apatented English type which has been ) The War Demonstration Hospital
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NOTE:—All partitions to runto height of wall plate RECEPTION PAVILION ( 17 ) NOTE:—Concrete jloor in Heceivingroom. Washing room, cleanlinen, soiled clothes The w \ n Demonstration Hospital employed in the base hospitals of theBritish Red (.ross and St. Johns Guild atEtaples, south of Boulogne. The system lias been \er\ considerablymodified at the suggestion of Messrs.Marc Eidlitz & Son, the contractors forthis work, and Messrs. Sloane & Moiler,who have built the panel sections, bothconcerns having suggested various im-provements, which make tin system litmore closely with American methods ofconstruction. Under the plan employed, the panels ofwalls, roofs and floors arc all of the samedimensions, so that any panel may besubstituted for any other. Light SteelTrusses Used Many portable systems* which em-ploy in part the unit method, abandon itwhen it comes to roof trusses, which theyspace only every second or third panel.But in this case the trusses are madelighter and space

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