Isolation Hospitals

Klappentext This 1922 second edition forms part of a series of books on public health and hygiene. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Historical; 2. Utility of isolation hospitals; 3. Substitutes for hospital isolation; 4. Areas to be served by an isolation hospital. Combined areas; 5. Sites for isolation hospitals; 6. Design of isolation hospitals; 7. Details of hospital ward-blocks; 8. Movable hospitals and hospitals of more or less perishable construction; 9. Small-pox hospitals; 10. Port sanitary hospitals; 11. Removal of patients to hospital; 12. Measures for the prevention of cross infection - 'bed isolation', open-air treatment; 13. Discharge of patients from hospital; 14. Staff required for an isolation hospital; 15. Infectious disease and the Poor Law; 16. Hospital system of the Metropolitan Asylums Board; 17. Cost of isolation hospitals; 18. Sanatoria for tuberculosis; 19. Examples of isolation hospitals; Index.

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• Authors: R. Bruce Low, H. Franklin Parsons, Parsons H. Franklin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521175975
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17597-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, History of Medicine, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Infectious & contagious diseases, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Infectious and contagious diseases