Chapter II: Preface: 7-8

CHAPTER I—The Hospital Housekeeper; The Housekeeper’s
Province; Bookkeeping; Hospital Inventory 13-19

CHAPTER II—The Main Entrance; The Porter; The
Private Rooms; Hospital Couches; Fumigation;
The Daily Cleaning; Dusting; Bath Rooms 20-29

CHAPTER III—The Hospital Ward; Soiled Clothing;
Buying Beds; Bed Making; Ward Lockers; Care
of Patients’ Clothing; Ward Medicines and Records;
Adjuncts to the Hospital Ward; Quiet
Room; Matters Miscellaneous; Destruction of
Appliances; Screens; A Twenty-Bed Ward Equipment 30-42

CHAPTER IV—The Linen Room; Bed Linen; The
Room; Linen Accounting; Discarded Linen;
Emergency Supply; Removing Stains; New Linen;
Shelf Management; Laundry Bags 43-50

CHAPTER V—The Hospital Laundry; Manager’s
Duties; Laundry Workers; Starching; Blueing;
Drying; Ironing; Routine of Work; The Laundry Plant 51-59

CHAPTER VI—The Hospital Kitchen; General
Construction; Kitchen Cabinet; Plan of a Model
Kitchen; Cold Storage; The Storeroom; Dishwashing;
Dishcloths and Towels; The Chief Kitchen Employees;
Training Needed; The Diet Kitchen 60-70

CHAPTER VII—The Purchase and Care of Food
Supplies; Judging Food Values; Bread; Milk; Care
of Milk; Cheese; Eggs; Economy and Care; Meat;
Beef; Veal and Mutton; Chickens; Fish; Pork; Butter;
Fresh Vegetables; Approximate Estimate of Quantities
of Food for a Twenty-five Bed, a Fifty-Bed and a
One Hundred-Bed Hospital 71-87

CHAPTER VIII—Preparation of Food; Object of
Cooking; Classes of Diets; Broths; Soups; Cooking
Meats; Cooking Vegetables; Time of Meals 88-97

CHAPTER IX—Diet Lists and Blanks; Serving of
Food; Tray Setting; Bills of Fare; Dishes; Hints
on Serving 98-110

CHAPTER X—Hospital Dietaries; Supplies for One
Hundred Persons for Thirty Days; Menus for
Nitrogenous Diet 110-119

CHAPTER XI—Hospital Hygiene; Prevention of
Disease; Sanitary Kitchens; Pure Food; Filters and
Water; Air; Cleanliness; Flies; Garbage; Garbage
Crematories 120-131

CHAPTER XII—The Help Question; Number of
Servants; Contracts; Merit System; Schedule of
Work; Rules; Servants’ Dining Rooms; Sleeping
Rooms; Attire; Housekeeper’s Relation to Servants 132-143

CHAPTER XIII—The Problem of Waste; Main Causes;
First Steps; Surgical Department; Utilizing Hospital
Waste; Soap making; Drugs; Wasteful Physicians;
Teach Economy; Abuse of Appliances; Careful Accounting;
Watching the Expenditures; Dietetic Department; System 144-158

APPENDIX—Disinfection; Fumigation Can;
Exterminationof Vermin; Care of Floors 159-162

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