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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rontand sides of the same dimensions, six single rooms and two wards in front of a corridorrunning the entire length of the Ijuilding, and in its rear a large ward over the diningroom 22 feet wide by 20 feet deep, toilet and baths for women and men, a matrons room14 feet wide by 18 feet deep, two nurses rooms 14 feet wide by 12 feet deep, and a lockerroom for i)atients. In the extension is a diet kitchen 9 feet wide by 6 feet deep, a nursesdining njom 14 feet wide by 13 feet deep, a nurses sitting room 21 feet wide by 21 feetdeep, and a small hall three feet wide, running into the main corridor at a right angle. The third floor also has the same general arrangement planned for the lower floors,except that there are no side \-erandas and the extension is divided into bedrooms and atoilet for the servants. The building has a capacity for forty-five patients, is heated bysteam, has an ele\-ator and dumb waiters, and cost S6o,ooo. 78 Administration Buildings and Patients Quarters Combined
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First Flooe- Plj\m Second Floor Plan No. 38.—Lake Edward Sanatorium, Lake Edward, Province of Quebec, Canada. Scopes & Feust- iiAxx, Architects. View of Front axd Side Ele\atiox, Floor Plans. Capacity, 26 Patiexts. Cost, $26,000. Lake Edward Sanatorium, Lake Edward, Province of Quebec, Canada (Illustration 38). This building is placed on a stone foundation two feet thick, and isof frame construction, with a shingled exterior. In order to protect the interior from coldas much as possible the walls are constructed in layers from the outside in, as follows:shingles, paper, siding, paper, siding, studs, wooden lath, plaster. The floors are hardwood throughout. All patients are provided with porch space and can be wheeled fromtheir rooms to the veranda assigned to them. The building is 87 feet long by 25 feet wide, with two extensions in the rear, one28 feet wide by 19 feet deep, and the other 28 feet wide by 54 feet deep; each porchwas designed as a loggia, and is a part of the stru

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