This practical guide to fire safety in hospitals provides detailed advice on how to prevent and respond to fires in healthcare settings. Otto Robert Eichel draws on his experience as a specialist in hospital engineering to offer clear and concise instructions on fire prevention strategies, emergency planning, and fire suppression systems. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from A Manual of Fire Prevention and Fire Protection for Hospitals IT is the purpose of this manual to pro vide in convenient form an outline of the principles of fire prevention and protection With indications for their application in institutions housing the sick. It is planned for use not only by superintendents and boards of managers, but also by inspectors, architects, builders, and others Who have occasion to consider the fire problem in hospitals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.