Text Appearing Before Image: t to the open air.A nurses dressing-room is essential, a small separation ward is useful, and inenteric and diphtheria pavilions an operating-room adjacent to the wardsshould be provided. Plate VIII. shows the new Edinburgh Hospital for Infectious Diseases, whichcontains over 600 beds, there being 15 patients to the acre, and is constructed onthe most approved modern principles. (See Plates IX. and X., pp. 406, 407.) Examples of small isolation hospitals on the Local Government Boardpattern are shown in Figs. 182 and 183. Temporary Isolation Hospitals are adapted for combating an epidemic,and are not so solidly constructed as permanent hospitals. They may be usedto provide for the overflow of cases from a permanent hospital during epidemics,or may be erected in the country to meet village requirements. Wooden hutshaving double walls filled with sawdust, or galvanised iron huts, or tents, maybe used. Waterproof material stretched on wooden frames forming huts of (Coitiiuntil on p. 408. Text Appearing After Image: EDINBURGH CITY HOSPITAL DIPHTHERIA.No. 14 on Ground Plan. Ambctance Driw WARD PLANS. TYPHOID.Nos. 15, 16 on Ground Plsn ambulance Drive..
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