AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('F. Nightingale'), to [Sir Robert] Rawlinson, a Sanitary Commissioner in the Crimean War, ABOUT THE FITTING-OUT AND DESIGN OF HOSPITALS, giving her views on fixed baths ('...should not have room all round it. For sick, in a condition requiring such assistance, must have their bath at their bed-side...'), the means by which dysenteric patients could be washed while maintaining their dignity ('...there is a thing I have often thought of. Dysenteric Patients require perpetual washing, which cannot be done at a Lavatory table, to prevent abrasion of the skin. Civil Dysentery is almost always confined to bed. And therefore this ought to be done by the Nurse for him in his bed. But Chronic Dysentery, rarely found, except in Military General Hosp[ita]ls (invalids from India) ought to have a convenience in the Lavatory, requiring privacy...It should be a kind of "bidet"...'), ventilation ('...In permanent Hospitals (not huts) we object to ventilation in the roof-space for the wards...there will always be danger of cold down-draughts from the roof-space. In the plans I sent you, the wards have shafts & inlets...') and air-tight houses ('not desirable'); adding that she hopes to hear more of the Reading Hospital, 4 pages, octavo, some light fox marks and staining, Old Burlington Street, 2 March 1861
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('F. Nightingale'), to [Sir Robert] Rawlinson, a Sanitary Commissioner in the Crimean War, ABOUT THE FITTING-OUT AND DESIGN OF HOSPITALS, giving her views on fixed baths ('...should not have room all round it. For sick, in a condition requiring such assistance, must have their bath at their bed-side...'), the means by which dysenteric patients could be washed while maintaining their dignity ('...there is a thing I have often thought of. Dysenteric Patients require perpetual washing, which cannot be done at a Lavatory table, to prevent abrasion of the skin. Civil Dysentery is almost always confined to bed. And therefore this ought to be done by the Nurse for him in his bed. But Chronic Dysentery, rarely found, except in Military General Hosp[ita]ls (invalids from India) ought to have a convenience in the Lavatory, requiring privacy...It should be a kind of "bidet"...'), ventilation ('...In permanent Hospitals (not huts) we object to ventilation in the roof-space for the wards...there will always be danger of cold down-draughts from the roof-space. In the plans I sent you, the wards have shafts & inlets...') and air-tight houses ('not desirable'); adding that she hopes to hear more of the Reading Hospital, 4 pages, octavo, some light fox marks and staining, Old Burlington Street, 2 March 1861
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