Public health #architecture
Ventilation required for ‘certain classes of inmates’:
Soldiers & healthy paupers: 600 cubic feet (17m3 ≈ 7m2 floor area)
Lying-in women (maternity) & the ‘offensively’ sick: 1,200 cubic feet (34m3 ≈ 14m2 floor area)
(source: Healthy Houses, 1876)
& it gets better
..the book was written by William Eassie, “late assistant engineer to Renkioi Hospital during the Crimean War”
Renkioi Hospital (1855) was a prefabricated hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with “the necessities of hygiene: sanitation, ventilation, drainage & temperature controls.. integrated in 1,000-patient hospital layout, using 60 of the unit wards” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renkioi_H…
& it happened due to the advocacy of “the splendid spinster” Florence Nightingale who reformed hospital practices & conditions (including ventilation to prevent disease spread) cpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/sites.uoguelph…
who said that “If infection exists it is preventable. If it exists it is the result of carelessness, or of ignorance”
(Notes on Hospitals, 1863 books.google.com/books/about/No…)
& Florence Nightingale designed windows to ventilate rooms without draughts.. & hospitals with adequate space & ventilation for public health
scientificamerican.com/article/what-f…
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