Isolation Hospitals

by H. Franklin Parsons , Assisted by R, Bruce Low

• ISBN13: 9780521175975
• ISBN10: 0521175976
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book was originally published in 1914, and revised following the death of its author and the changes in healthcare brought about by the Great War. This 1922 second edition forms part of a series of books on public health and hygiene designed to advise those working for the government and the medical profession. They now provide a fascinating insight into the workings of health policy prior to the introduction of a National Health Service. This book addresses the way in which infectious diseases were contained and treated, and defends the government's decision to spend a significant amount of money on isolation hospitals. Parsons and Low discuss the most advantageous designs and locations for these institutions, the containment of diseases such as small pox and tuberculosis, and the issues that arose around both the staffing of isolation hospitals and the changing provisions made for those patients affected by severe poverty.

Table of Contents

Historical

Utility of isolation hospitals

Substitutes for hospital isolation

Areas to be served by an isolation hospital. Combined areas

Sites for isolation hospitals

Design of isolation hospitals

Details of hospital ward-blocks

Movable hospitals and hospitals of more or less perishable construction

Small-pox hospitals

Port sanitary hospitals

Removal of patients to hospital

Measures for the prevention of cross infection - 'bed isolation', open-air treatment

Discharge of patients from hospital

Staff required for an isolation hospital

Infectious disease and the Poor Law

Hospital system of the Metropolitan Asylums Board

Cost of isolation hospitals

Sanatoria for tuberculosis

Examples of isolation hospitals

Index

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