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  • image SM volume 77/54

Reference number

SM volume 77/54

Purpose

[40] Design, 24 August 1809

Aspect

Chelsea Hospital / Plan of the Chamber Floor of / a design for a new Infirmary

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above, labelled (Hall) On the Chamber Floor are Eight / Wards each separate and distinct / calculated for the reception of / Forty Patients together with rooms / for the Nurses and Helpers / a Hot Bath and convenience / NB. In both floors the surgical / Patients are kept entirely / distinct from the other Patients, Ward / for four / Patients (six times), Lobby (twice), Washouse, Corridor (four times), nurses, Staircase (twice) and Ward for 8 Patients (twice)

Signed and dated

  • John Soane. architect. Lincolns Inn Fields, Copy delivered / August 24th 1809

Hand

Richard Hall (Labourer in Trust at Chelsea, fl. 1807-1837)

Notes

This drawing, SM volume 77/58, SM volume 77/55 and SM volume 77/57 all show different floors of same building, with wards, matron's kitchen and other rooms all laid out. The building separated on the end is presumably still intended as a 'foul ward'.

Level

Drawing

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