II. Nurse’s Room, &c.
Nurse’s Room.
It is essential that between every two wards, in a hospital where the blocks are built end to end, there should be, as at the new Military Hospital of Vincennes, a lobby with a thorough supply of pure fresh air.
If it were possible, where the Head Nurse, or rather in a Military Hospital the Nurse, has charge of two such wards on the same floor, to let her have a long, narrow room, with screened windows, opening into both wards, the door opening into the passage in the midst, it is worth contriving.
Medical Officer’s Room.
2. The Medical Officer’s room should be on the ground floor at the entrance and apart from everything else.
The servant or whoever cleans the room, should not be a Ward-Orderly, (ward-attendance cannot be kept too entirely separate from all other concerns).
Water-Closets.
3. The ward water-closet should have a pane of glass at top, so that a faint gas-light in the lavatory at night can light sufficiently the closet, and the (bed-pan) sink.
The water-closet should be constructed, as is done often in those of English railway stations, so that each visitor involuntarily, on rising or on opening the door, purifies the concern.