DESCRIPTION OF SKETCH-PLANS OF PROPOSED INSTITUTION.
I know of no single building which requires more ingenuity to plan, and has hitherto received less, than a lying-in institution, especially with a training school for midwives attached.
Lieut. Ommanney, R.E., has been kind enough to give his time and mind to the subject—having previously had considerable experience at the War Office in planning female hospitals—and to embody the whole of the working accommodation required for both lying-in institution and school in the thoughtfully arranged sketch-plans, Nos. III., IV., and V.
The estimated cost of these plans is large; but if we must have lying-in institutions at all, it is only ‘penny wise and pound foolish’ to cripple either space or necessary appliances, or the means of regularly and periodically vacating every ward and every ward-office destined for the use of lying-in women.
PLAN III
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M & N HANHART, LITH.
W. F. Ommanney,
LT. R. E.
PLAN IV
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M & N HANHART, LITH.
W. F. Ommanney
LT. R. E.
Plan III.
This plan shows a lying-in ward unit for the institution, together with its scullery and separate offices, and the relation which these bear to the corridor of communication joining all parts of the hospital on each floor together.