Tuberculosis hospital and sanatorium construction; (1911) (14781693285)

Identifier: tuberculosishos00carr (find matches)
Title: Tuberculosis hospital and sanatorium construction;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Carrington, Thomas Spees National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (U.S.)
Subjects: Hospital Design and Construction Hospitals, Special Tuberculosis Health Resorts
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons



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ins a sitting room furnished with a large fireplace, and a toilet room fittedwith lavatories and baths. The wings of the building are 36 feet long by 24 feet deep,divided into open wards 36 feet long by 15 feet deep, with a corridor and three dressingrooms in their rear. Each floor is an independent unit for twelve patients and thebuilding was constructed two stories in height in order to economize in heating, asthe winters in Manitoba are very cold. There are two pavilions of the same t^^pe atthis institution; the one housing women is shown in the illustration. The other, formen, has a slightly different floor plan, with only one large dressing room in the rearof the sleeping porch. The advantage claimed for this building is that the dressingrooms are closer to the patients and give them more privacy than in the usual lean-totype of structure. The cost of the building including its porportion of the heating plant,installation of plumbing, water supply and sewer connection was $8,000.
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No. 82.—Edward Sanatorium, Naperville, 111. W. A. Otis and Edward H. Clark, Architects. Lean-to. View of Front Elevation and Floor Plan. C.-upacity. 10 Patients. Estimated Cost, $1,800. (See illustrations 62 and 88 for further description of this institution.) 133 Section \