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The subject of this thesis is a presentation of research into the basic factors influencing the design of the nursing unit of the general hospital, and a study of the various components of the nursing unit. Conclusions have been set forth in general terms in the text and as diagramatic proposals and thus are adaptable to any particular design problem. ...

In recent decades the arts have been neglected. We are only now beginning to re-instate them, and give them the importance they deserve, the importance they have had in some of the past great ages of mankind. In the last 100 years especially, we have been so dazzled by the spectacular achievements of science, so absorbed in its complexity and ...