Art. 385. Each hospital shall have a capacity for 100 sick 
persons. . 
Art. 86 Each hospital: shall possess the following in- 
stallations: 
(a) Five separate pavilions, each for 20 sick, each sick per- 
son having 5 cubic metres and an area of 12 square metres. 
One of the pavilions should be installed with the necessary 
requisites for the isolation of infectious diseases ; for this purpose 
it should be divided into rooms for isolation, independent and 
easily disinfected, with the proper sanitary apparatus. 
All the hospital buildings should have the windows protected 
by wire screening whose openings should never exceed 1% 
millimeter and the doors provided with: 
(b) A disinfectory provided with an apparatus to disin- 
fect in boiling lye and a stove for sterilization by the combined 
action of heat, vacuum and formal. Annexed to the disinfectory 
shall be the laundry. 
(c) A laboratory for the diagnostic clinics and microbiology. 
(d) Surgicial operating room. 
(e) Clinic consulting room. 
(f) Room for autopsies. 
(g) Pharmacy. 
(h) Sanitary installation, in which should terminate all the 
drainage pipes of the hospital, destined for the bacteriological 
treatment of the water used, which not until after this operation 
must be allowed to flow into the natural river courses. 
(i) Dependencies for the administration and quarters of the 
personnel. 
Art. 8%. In each hospital there shall be made in the respec- 
tive pharmaceutical laboratory a preliminary study of all the 
remedies used by the people of that region to determine which 
are prejudicial and which inoffensive. The respective Director 
shall show the people in printed circulars, frequently and pro- 
fusely distributed that their use is improper. Those which are 
found efficacious and susceptible of improvement, shall be sent 
for more complete studies in the chemical laboratories and 
federal pharmacies, letting the people know the results obtained. 
Art. 38. When the installation of each hospital is complete, a 
contract shall be made, by public bidding, or independent of it, 
as the Government may think best, with some professional of 
recognized ability, the direction and maintenance of the respec- 
tive services, the contract including the following obligations: 
1. The reservation of one hour daily in the medical con- 
sultation room, where the sick known to be without means may 
freely receive examination and be furnished with the necessary 
medicines. 
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