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Excerpt from Healthy Hospitals: Observations on Some Points Connected With Hospital Construction
These notes do not embody the detailed require ments of hospitals for special diseases, which may entail in some cases separation of patients, in others Special curative adjuncts. They are limited to explaining the general principles upon which healthy construction must be based.
Fortunately the tendency of the modern hospital architect is not to be content to accept the dicta of his predecessor, but to endeavour always to improve upon former practice; and a great development in new methods of hospital construction has been the result. This tendency has however the drawback, that it has not invariably added to the hygienic perfection of the structure; indeed in some recent palatial buildings it has been very detrimental, and it has in every case added to the expense of hospital construction. It seems therefore desirable to bring the fundamental principles which should govern hospital constructionprominently before the hospital architect as well as before those who are concerned with proposals for new hospitals.
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