1986 Volume 362 Pages 63-73
Nagasaki Yojosho, the first Western style hospital with modern medical school in Japan was built in Nagasaki in 1861, designed by Pompe, Dutch navy surgeon. The hospital buildings were H-shaped wooden building composed of two two-storied double pavilion wards and a one-storied central building, equipped with 124 beds and medical installations. In this paper we studied the process of selections of suitable sites, layout planning and block plan of the Nagasaki Yojosho through the project by Pompe. You can find some similarties in the methods of planning hospitals between the project by Pompe and "Handleiding tot de kennis der Burgerlijkeen Militaire Bouwkunst" by Storm and "Notes on Hospitals" by Nightingale.
