Shows a floor of one of the lying-in ward pavilions, divided into four
separate one-bed rooms. This plan also represents a unit, but of another
construction. The great advantage of the arrangement is complete
separation of cases from each other, so that each room is as far as
possible assimilated to a room in a private dwelling-house. To obtain
this advantage the rooms are arranged in pairs on each side of a
nine-feet passage, having a window at one end and a corridor-window
opposite the other end.
Two of the rooms open from the corridor, and two rooms from the passage,
but the doors are not opposite each other. In this, as in the four-bed
ward plan, the scullery and offices are completely isolated from the
rooms by a nine-feet corridor. In this case, also, the measurements and
other details have been arrived at after full consideration. This plan
would be somewhat more costly than the previous one (Plan III.). The
justification of it is found in the fact that it reproduces, in a
permanent form, the conditions in Colchester Lying-in Hut, already
described. And in this hut there has, as yet, been no death after
delivery.