Ventilation is one of the most important requirements for good hospital work. To se cure this, patients must have a definite amount of air space. It has been decided by experts that the minimum square feet of floor space and of cubic feet of air for each patient must according to age, be in accordance with the following table: Experience has shown that in wards then should be at least .eight feet from centre r: centre of beds. If there are two rows of beds in the ward, then the ward must be at lest 24 feet wide, for the beds should not be plact: nearer than feet from the wall. The kJ themselves should be feet long, with 8:ce of corridor space between them.
Another feature of the modern hospital* which there has been reversion to old time hospitals is in the arrangement of the gardens Medimval hospitals usually had pretty gardens around them which made pleasant vistas from the doorways and windows and restful resorts for convalescent patients. Landscape archi tects are now asked to design hospital gardens and some of these are very beautiful. Such
pleasant surroundings are considered a vet) Important addition to other modes of thera peutics affecting patients' minds very favorably.
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