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Title: History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries ...: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of overseers of the poor, gaurdians of the poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lawrence, Charles, b. 1837
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.). Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Dept. of Charities and Correction Almshouses Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals
Publisher: (Philadelphia) : C. Lawrence
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ng entriesor passages ought to be on the side of the buildings, in preferenceto the middle, from the difficulty of preserving a pure atmospherein long middle passages. By putting the passages on the side,Piazzas are rendered unnecessary, and more pervious may bene-ficially occupy a room of given dimensions on one side of such apassage, owing to the purer atmosphere, than in a room of thesame size on one side of a middle passage. 6th. The Hospital and House of Employment, instead ofbeing contiguous, should be at remote points of the plot, that thesick may not be annoyed by the noise of the latter establishment. The Guardians suggest that the whole basement storyshould be above ground, with the exception of such apartments ofit as are intended for cooking, or for furnaces of any description.These should be made fire-proof, and of course will have to bedepressed to leave room for arching. The plans which the Guardians have instructed the Com- CD m >< m zcm OO z CD o c H
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History of Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals. 89 mittee to submit to the consideration of the Commissioners wasprepared and is presented to the latter for the purpose merel) ofexhibiting some of the leading views which the Board entertainsin relation to the great object to be obtained. The minor detailsof the plan have not as yet engaged the particular attention of theBoard. The plans were referred to the Physicians, and they made thefollowing report, March 28, 1829 • The Committee of Physicians, to whom were referred severalPlans for a new Hospital, report that they bestowed such attentionas the importance of the subject requires. Of these plans the oneproposed by the Guardians comes the nearest to what the Com-mittee -conceive should be the interior arrangement of a Hospital;the others they are disposed to reject wholly as not applicable to thecase in view. The remarks which they make are therefore intendedfor the plan of the Board of Guardians. The Committee think that the lo

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