hospitals

• 18th century - good

  • less strict about who they turned away
  • rich people received treatments + surgery at home
  • surgeon visited everyday
  • new hospitals began to appear
  • poor people go to doctors - respected
  • increasingly became a place where sick people got treated(as opposed to prayed for)
  • doctors visited places daily
• 18th century - bad

  • untrained nurses cared for patients
  • only 5 in the UK - 1700
  • hospitals choose who was treated
  • hospitals were still not a place where people chose to be treated
  • as more people came to hospitals it became less sanitary
  • doctors went from patient to patient without washing hands --
  • disease spread quickly
• 1900 hospitals

  • used wards to split up infectious patients from those who needed surgery
  • operating theatres and specialist departments for new medical equipment provided separate spaces for certain procedures
  • cleanliness was the upmost important
  • hospitals first focused on cleaning germs with aseptic
  • 1900-tried to get rid of germs to begin with
  • doctors were common (junior)
  • trained nurses lived nearby in prepaid houses
  • modern hospital design -- donations + new student doctors
  • hospitals became a place where people were treated(opposed to where people rested)
• Florence Nightingale


  wrote Notes on Nursing - 1859 -- set out key role of nursing + importance of thorough training

  1860 - opened Nightingales School for Nurses at St Thomas Hospital, London

  new hospitals were built out of materials that could easily be cleans (tiles) - she believed dirt spread disease

  promoted 'pavilion style' hospitals where separate wards were used to seperate patients

  nursing seemed respectable

  boiled bandages at 100'C
• nurses before Nightingale


  working class

  had a reputation of being; dunk, flirtatious and uncaring
• nurses after Nightingale


  middle class

  nursing was seen as a respectable profession -- due to rigorous training