Show EVOLUTION OF MODERN HOSPITAL FROM PAST Units Remain the Same Sanle but Appliances More Aseptic and Cleanliness Feature The mo modern ern hospital Is a a. sanitary workshop Until a a. ten few years roars ago ngo It was a 0 place where sick people could be bo kept until the they recovered Toda Today It Is a n. workshop where the they are aro madewell made well A few years ears a ago o the adequately equipped hospital was a clean house with cl clean an floors clean walls a clean bed Indifferently trained nurses and a doctor whose v sole means of ot diagnosis dlag were his ear ear his eye and his touch at the bedside of ot the patient Toda Today themo the mo modern ern hospital has a laboratory of or pathology to aid all the surgeon or phy- phy in his his diagnosis a a. laboratory of bacteriology a u department of or physical therapeutics for various sorts of or exercise exer exor- cise a department of dietetics In which patients ma may be fed b by the doctors doctor's prescription and their theil food measure measured In exact terms an au operating department department depart depart- ment aseptic with all which that term Implies a mill milk laboratory for In Infant In- In fant feeding and a vast list of oC machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery such as pre blood pressure blood sure apparatus apparatus appa appa- ratus Instruments for measuring and microscopes and Instruments for countIng countIng count- count Ing lag tho the blood coils cells X-rn X ray X-ray outfits apparatus ap ap- apparatus ap- ap for Introducing Introducing- normal salines s and other fluids Into tho the blood and so soon so soon on down the list almost ad Infinitum Yet this change chango Is more moro ono one of or de degree Ile- Ile gree than of kind In 1863 Florence Nightingale published a book on the I hospital sp al of u that da day hH Her r plans s down own iu IL v me snow the LIlO hospItal hos hos- HOSpital HOS- HOS pital unit almost precisely precise as ns It Is la to to- to day the day the ward flanked b by the ser Ic service service- room the tho bath tho the toilet the tho slop sink room the convalescents' convalescents dining room tho the linen room the surgical dressing room the supply rooms and the medi medi- cine chic closets Today TOda- says saos Dr W. W B. B Ruas Ru In a re recent recent re- re cent Issue of tho the Journal of at the AmerIcan Amer Anier- ican lean Medical Association our units are tho same but our construction Is steel and concrete wo have h no carpets and dust catchers catcher our furniture Is white enamel Wo We 0 have forsaken the tho time old-time heat registers with their dust and soot we have steam radiators that give nothing Into the sick room wo we have I screens on our windows to deny den ad admission ad- ad mission to the tho fly l and the mosquito an and other Insects that may carry rry tt LC j organisms of disease Wo We r know t sunlight is one of ot Gods Gads wa ways s 's of oC curio disease and that fresh air Is one of oC IJ u. u i greatest physicians In tho the world i that we b build ll our modern hospitAl with windows facing to the sun wil l laIr air space measured In terms cf d f feet et for tho sick |