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[42] Design, 24 August 1809
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Reference number
SM volume 77/57
Purpose
[42] Design, 24 August 1809
Aspect
Chelsea Hospital / Plan of the Ground Floor of a / design for a new Infirmary / according to the original outline presented to / the Lords & other Commiss[or]s for managing the affairs of / Chelsea Hospital / in April last. / by John Soane R.A.
Scale
bar scale
Inscribed
as above, labelled No 2, NB: In this design the wards are all / separated and the rooms between / are applied to the use of the nurses etc / and the whole is proposed to be incombustible, The Ground floor is proposed to be raised / 3 steps above the level of the present Terrace, to / give the least possible inconvenience in removing / the sick from the wards into the Infirmary . _ / On this floor is a Ward entirely detached for foul Patients and also 7 other Wards separate & / distinct from each other the whole calculated, / to accomodate 42 Patients; each ward has / a through draught of air from the River / with other means of ventilation, there are / also rooms for the Physician, Surgeon, Nurse, Helpers and other necessary accommodations / such as Washouse, Water Closets, Sinks / places for Coals etc ---, Part of the original / Building lately pulled / down, proposed to be / rebuilt for / a residence / for the Physician, Whitster's House / Reservoir, artificers Sheds etc, Carriage Way etc, Part of Gordons Wall, Foul Ward / for 6 Patients, Ward / for four / patients (four times), Lobby, washouse, Corridor (five times), nurse (twice), Ward for 8 Patients (twice), apothecary, Physician, Staircase, Surgeon, Lobby, Ward / for four / Patients, Entrance / Hall, Dead / House, Lodge, The present Entrance / into the Garden, mihi turpe relinqui est
Signed and dated
- John Soane, architect, Lincolns Inn Fields, Copy delivered / August 24 1809
Hand
Soane office
Watermark
Fellows 1804
Notes
This drawing, SM volume 77/58, SM volume 77/54 and SM volume 77/55 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'.
The 'Reservoir' referred to in the inscription to this drawing probably indicates a body of water kept (for use in bleaching and washing) by the Whitster, particularly given the close proximity of the labels referring to each.
The 'Reservoir' referred to in the inscription to this drawing probably indicates a body of water kept (for use in bleaching and washing) by the Whitster, particularly given the close proximity of the labels referring to each.
Level
Drawing
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