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All new pavilions are approximately placed axially North and
South, for reasons already stated.
Sick Members of the Staff.—A reference is desirable to
the provision for nursing sick members of the staff. On the one side
it is urged that a nurse loses authority, or " caste," if she occupies the
same ward as ordinary patients, and those taking this view press for a
separate infirmary for the treatment of the staff.
On the other side it is urged that it brings the wards into
disrepute, if sick nurses are treated elsewhere, as a feeling is created
among patients and their friends that in the infirmary some superior
treatment is given to the staff. In my judgment, the reasonable
objections on both sides are met, and a fair compromise is effected, by
arranging to treat any sick among the staff in the one or two bed
wards in each pavilion, and this is the course I have contemplated in
my scheme.
I now come to detail particulars of the proposed
Hospital.
The following is the accommodation proposed to be provided:—
PATIENTS.
Scarlet Fever.
One New Pavilion to accommodate 31 Patients.
„ „ „ „ 27 „
Two existing,, „ „ 56 „
Total 114
Diphtheria.
One New Pavilion to accommodate 27 ,,
Enteric Fever.
One New Pavilion to accommodate 23 „
Isolation of Doubtful Cases.
One New Pavilion to accommodate 15 „
Total number of Patients provided for 179
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