Proportion of Nurses, Ward Masters, and Orderlies to
Sick 91–93
Wine to be always administered by Nurse 93
Orderlies--their Duties vary according to
appurtenances of Ward 94
If Hot and Cold Water are laid on, and there are
Lifts, one Orderly’s Service saved to each 30 Sick 94, 95
Night-Duty of Orderlies 95–108
Scheme of Night-Service for three Orderlies watching
by turns 96, 97
Exercise for Orderlies 97
Night Refreshment for Orderlies 98, 99
Where are the Night Orderlies to sleep? 100
Comparative Merits of different Systems of Night
Nursing in Home and in Foreign Hospitals 101–3
An Assistant Ward Master should go round the Wards
at Night 104
Extraordinary System of Night-Nursing in the Army
at present 105–8
II. TWELVE SUNDRIES IN ORGANIZING A MILITARY
HOSPITAL 108–114
1. Nurses’ Room 108
2. Medical Officer’s Room 108
3. Water-Closets 109
4. Warm and Cold Water Supply 109
5. Corridors 109
6. Lobby 110
7. Material of Ward Utensils 110
8. Reserve Wards 111–112
Necessity of Annual Cleansing of the whole of a
Hospital
9. Occasional Revision of Rules 113
10. Defect in German Organization of Nursing 113
11. Nurses’ Exercise 113
12. Number of Ward Masters 114
III. REGULATIONS 114–117
1. Deprivation of Visitors salutary in certain Wards 114–16
2. Numbering Patients saves time 117
3. Prohibition of Swearing 117
Conclusion 117
ADDITIONAL HINTS AS TO PAVILION HOSPITALS SUGGESTED BY THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE LARIBOISIÈRE HOSPITAL AT PARIS 118–127
I. Ventilation 118–120
Artificial Ventilation never freshens a Ward
II. Oiled Boards versus Parquets 120–124
Cleaning polished and oiled Boards much less
laborious, and freshens the Ward much more than
the _frottage_ of _Parquets_.
Mode of Cleaning them at Berlin 122–124
III. Ten Cautions in Building Hospital Pavilions 124–127
Size of Wards. Our own Regimental Hospitals
extraordinary for their many holes and corners 125
Casualty Wards 126
“CONTAGION” AND “INFECTION” DEFINED 128–132
Idea of “Contagion” invented by Men to excuse
themselves for the neglect of all Sanitary
arrangements 128
In the ordinary sense of the word, no such thing
as “Contagion” 129
Nor as _inevitable_ “Infection” 130
“Infection” and Incapable Management, or Bad
Construction, convertible terms 131
“Epidemics” do not _spread_--they develop
themselves in Constitutions made ripe for them
by Sanitary neglects 131