Identifier: annualreportoftr9596bost (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the trustees
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Boston City Hospital
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Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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it isbelieved to be the best policy to reserve these rooms forthose who have a claim upon the hospital by reason of resi-dence. These facts tend to show that the reputation of thehospital is extending, and that there are large numbers ofpeople in New England and beyond who would like to availthemselves of the use of the hospital if they were eligiblefor treatment. The South Department. The most notable event of the hospital year has been theopening of the new South Department for infectious diseases.Those who have followed the hospital reports for recentyears cannot have failed to observe the great discomfort andspread of infectious diseases among patients, nurses, andemployes in the general wards, by reason of the close prox-imity of these diseases to the general household. Happily,the completion and organization of the South Departmentwill remedy many of these difficulties. The South Department consists of a group of seven build-ings, situated on Massachusetts avenue and bounded by
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>- bfl O The Boston City Hospital. 19 Albany and Northampton streets. The administration build-ing is Ihree .stories high, with a habitable basement, and pro-vides for the general administration of the relations between the hospital and the public, and also for offices and residenceof the staff and executive officers. The gate lodge, dome-ticbuilding, and laundry building are for the general uses thatpertain to such buildings, in connection with a hospital.There is also a home for nurses, which is so arranged thatit is divided into two complete buildings, joining, butisolated from each other, and the stairways are so arrangedthat each floor is separate from the other floors. By thisarrangement, six sets of nurses are able to occupy the build-ing without coming in contact with each other. A restricted site made it necessary that the buildingsdevoted to patients should be arranged with as little com-munication as possible, and yet be compact. There are twotwo-story buildings, each 16

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