Identifier: 53410800R.nlm.nih.gov
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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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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t of nurses,surgeon on duty and chief surgeon. The LaboratoryPavilion Adjoining this the Laboratory Buildingcontains a demonstration and lectureroom, Record Officers room, coat roomand storage, the pharmacy with its wait-ing room for orderlies, and the chemicaland bacteriological laboratories. Labor-atories are supplied with water and gasand with electricity for both light andpower. As has already been said, thisbuilding is arranged to meet the peculiarrequirements of a hospital which is to be ( 1 maintained for demonstration and in-struction. The ReceivingPavilion The Receiving and DischargingPavilion is in its present development aproduct of the war. All wounded must be cleaned beforebeing admitted to the wards. It has beenfound convenient to associate the storageof patients effects and the dischargingservice with the admitting service. TheReceiving Room into which the ambu-lances discharge is in the center, wildthe washing room adjacent, where the 1 J The wah Demonstration Hospit\l
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July 23—A Completed Ward patients pedigrees are taken, where theyare undressed, washed and put intohospital clothes. Soiled clothing is transported in bags onwheeled frames to the laundry buildingfor disinfection and washing; it is thenreturned to the storage room at the rightend of the Receiving Building. Dis-charged patients return to this building,where their records have been kept,secure their valuables and clothing, dressin the small room adjoining the office, andturn in their hospital clothes. The surgeon on duty in the ReceivingBuilding has a small office. He keepsfirst aid supplies there, in case they are needed to replace a dressing. He ex-amines all arriving patients and deter-mines the order in which they are to bebathed and sent into the operating roomor wards. The OperatingPavilion The Operating Pavilion is of especialinterest in a war hospital. For thisbuilding, 105 feet in length, the widertype of unit, 28 feet wide with walls10 feet high, has been adopted. Thebuildin

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