Identifier: tuberculosishos00carr (find matches)
Title: Tuberculosis hospital and sanatorium construction;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Carrington, Thomas Spees National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (U.S.)
Subjects: Hospital Design and Construction Hospitals, Special Tuberculosis Health Resorts
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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two showers. The wards face the south, are 14 feet wide by 16 feet long,and each contains a single row of twelve beds, with a veranda in their front 10 feet wideby 60 feet long, separated from the wards by a glass partition made up of triple hung windows 104 I Hospitals for Advanced Cases, Infirmaries and Reception Hospitals extending from the roof to the floor. Along the north side of the wards is a row of windowswhich give cross-ventilation. It has been suggested that doors be substituted for the triple hung windows on thefront, as they are rather heavy and hard to move. This ward is for slightly advancedcases and is very satisfactory for the purpose. It is heated by steam, lighted by electricity,has a capacity for twenty-six patients, and cost, including equipment, $15,000. EXAMPLES OF INFIRMARIES AND RECEPTION HOSPITALS Maine State Sanatorium, Hebron, Me., The Infirmary (Illustration 58).This is a frame structure, on a stone foundation. Under the left wing the ground falls off to
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No. 58.—Maine State Sanatorium, Hebron, Me. T. C. Stevens and J. H. Stevens, Architects. Infirmary. View of Front Elevation and Floor Plan. Capacity, 30 Patients. _ Estimated Cost, $30,000. (See illustrations 11 and 23 for further description of this institution.) 105 Section IV such an extent that an open ward was constructed in the basement, providing an arrange-ment similar to that on the floor above. The building consists of a centre section, twostories high, two wings and a rear extension. The front of the building is in the form ofan acute angle and has a porch running its entire length, eleven feet wide. The wings are32 feet wide by 61 feet long, divided into nine single rooms each 7 feet \\dde by 11 feetdeep, ^^ith a closet 3 feet wide by 2 feet deep, and a passageway or corridor four feetwide in their rear. It should be noted that the rooms are ventilated by transoms openingabove the roof of the porch through which sunlight is obtained and that the arrangement ofclosets in

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