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In this building we have three floors and a basement. A drain runs from
back to front of the building, right across the basement—a most unsafe
course for a drain in any inhabited building.[11]
It will be seen that the rooms are placed on opposite sides of a main
corridor running the lengthway of the building on each floor; that the
corridors of the different floors communicate by the stairs; that the
ventilation of each room communicates with the ventilation of every
other room through the corridors; that none of the rooms have windows on
opposite sides, and that there are water-closets having a ventilation
common to that of the building. Now every one of these structural
arrangements is objectionable, and would be considered so in any good
hospital, and nobody now-a-days would venture to include all of them in
a general hospital plan. They are hence _à fortiori_ altogether
inadmissible in a building for the reception of lying-in women.