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Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : $b Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses
Nightingale, Florence
Women's hospitals
_CHAPTER II._
CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF A LYING-IN INSTITUTION AND
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MIDWIVES AND MIDWIFERY NURSES 72
I. CONSTRUCTION OF A LYING-IN INSTITUTION 74
1. _How many Beds to a Ward?_ 74
TABLE XVI.—_Proposed Registry of Midwifery Cases_ 75
2. _How many Wards to a Floor?_ 76
3. _How many Floors to a Pavilion (Hut or Cottage)?_ 76
_How many Beds to a Pavilion or Hut?_ 76
_How many Pavilions or Huts to a Lying-in Institution?_ 76
4. _How much Space to the Bed?_ 77
_The Delivery Ward_ 77
5. _How many Windows to a Bed?_ 78
6. _What are Healthy Walls, and Ceilings, and Floors?_ 78
7. _What is a Healthy and Well-lighted Delivery Ward?_ 79
8. _Scullery, Lavatory, W.C._ 81
9. _How to ventilate Lying-in Wards_ 83
10. _Furniture, Bedding, Linen_ 84
11. _Water supply, Drainage, Washing_ 85
12. _Medical Officer’s Room and Waiting-Room_ 85
13. _Segregation Ward_ 86
14. _Kitchen_ 86
SITE 86
II. MANAGEMENT 90
_First Rule of Good Management_ 90
_Second Rule of Good Management_ 91
_Third Rule of Good Management_ 93
III. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MIDWIVES 94
DESCRIPTION OF SKETCH-PLANS OF PROPOSED INSTITUTION 100
_A Lying-in Institution For 40 beds (32 to 36 occupied),
with a training school for 30 pupil Midwives and Nurses_ 102
APPENDIX: MIDWIFERY AS A CAREER FOR EDUCATED WOMEN 105
LIST OF PLANS.
NO.
1. QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S LYING-IN HOSPITAL, LONDON _to face page_ 38
2. WOODEN LYING-IN HUT IN COLCHESTER CAMP „ 44
3. PLAN OF A LYING-IN WARD, FOUR BEDS „ 100
4. PLAN OF A LYING-IN FLOOR, FOUR ONE-BED ROOMS „ 101
5. PLAN OF A LYING-IN INSTITUTION FOR 40 (32 TO 36 OCCUPIED) BEDS,
WITH TRAINING SCHOOL FOR 30 PUPIL MIDWIVES „ 104
NOTES ON LYING-IN INSTITUTIONS.
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