FEWER VISITORS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 406, 13 April 1937, Page 2

FEWER VISITORS.

THE IDEAL HOSPITAL i Small Wards Favoured. j j ■Recommendations about the ideal ■ hospital—its wards, nurses and the ’ control of visitors—are made in a report issued by The British Ministry of Health. Visitors to patients have increased greatly in numbers, in recent years, states the report, an'|l it is a difficult problem to accommodate Them. The report goes on To suggest that in the interests of the patients themselves, as 'Well as. for economy and convenience, the number of visitors should be strictly limited. Nurses should always have a separate nurses’ home, and not be housed in The main block it is stated, and there should be room enough in their dining-rooms for them to have small tables. Administrative sisters should have their own bedrooms, and ward'-sisters their own bed-sitting rooms. Ward units are advocated with 30 beds, of which four should be in separate one-bed rooms. Two or more smaller wards, instead of one big one, are considered “well worthy of consideration.” The department for receiving patients should include at least one single-bed ward, wi ll a separate exit tor an infectious patient.