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IN order to make known more widely the great work of the voluntary hospitals, Mr. Saxe Wyndham in 1929 suggested to the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London that a model of a modern hospital, complete in its smallest details, would be likely to arouse the interest of the public and so help the King's Fund. The Propaganda Committee of the Fund decided to undertake this work, and a design for the model was commenced by the late Mr. Percy Adams, and completed after his death by Mr. Lionel Pearson. At first, there was some difficulty in obtaining the necessaryfunds, but eventually Messrs. Humphreys, Ltd., of Knightsbridge, generously undertook the responsibility, and a number of other firms collaborated in the construction and equipment. The model is to a scale of one sixteenth of full size, and includes adults' and children's wards, complete with bathrooms, lavatories and sink rooms, and with circular solarium at the end, operating theatres, X-ray apparatus, staircases and working electric lift, board room and kitchen, balconies and garden, together with figures of doctors, nurses and patients. The work was executed by a staff of skilled craftsmen, and so far as possible every detail essential to a building of this kind has been reproduced in the model furniture, bedding, screens, radiators and others too numerous to mention. The model is on view until further notice at British Industries House, Hereford House, Oxford Street, London.
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The King's Fund Miniature Hospital. Nature 136, 714–715 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136714d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136714d0