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THIS is a work compiled by an architect more particularly for reference purposes by other architects. It provides a practical guide to the planning of fever hospitals, disinfecting and cleansing stations. It contains a large number of plans showing in detail the construction of many fever hospitals which have been provided during recent years; and although the object of the author has been to place before his readers only those examples which demonstrate the most approved principles of design or other points of special interest, several of the plans reproduce the features of other designs and present no essential differences in the details of construction. Mr. Freeman devotes about thirty-five pages to a consideration of the general principles of design and construction in reference to1 fever hospitals, disinfecting and cleansing stations, and then devotes the rest of the book to the plans and more important features of construction above referred to. The scheme is a good one; but it is a question whether the purpose of the book might not have been even better served if the author had extended his statement upon the most approved features of design and construction, by giving the reader the benefit of more of the opinions and criticisms of one who has evidently made a special study of this matter, and then presenting the plans and details of construction of about a dozen existing hospitals which are specially commended.
The Planning of Fever Hospitals and Disinfecting and Cleansing Stations.
By Albert C. Freeman. Pp. viii+165. (London: The Sanitary Publishing Company, Ltd., n.d.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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The Planning of Fever Hospitals and Disinfecting and Cleansing Stations . Nature 80, 185 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080185a0
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