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This short paper
sets out briefly the origins of the pavilion-plan hospital,
with a particular focus on its introduction to Britain from France
in the mid-nineteenth century. The role of Florence Nightingale
is discussed, and the effects of the Crimean War, where the terrible
death rates of soldiers from infections contracted in hospital gave
rise to a national scandal, and led directly to the reform of hospital
building in Britain. There follows an analysis of two major pavilion-plan
hospitals built in the 1860s in London. The paper concludes with
examples of some of the many pavilion-plan hospitals erected in
Britain in the following 100 years, demonstrating how the plan was
refined and varied to suit different sites, and in response to advances
in medical knowledge.
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