Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze journeys from the central sterile and supply department (C.S.S.D.) to the nursing units, the out-patient department, the operation department and other departments in the hospital and to gain information for the design of C.S.S.D. Six hospitals were chosen for the study of the actual traffic to and from the C.S.S.D. The results are as follows. 1) The journeys are divided into two types : (1) routine supply and (2) extraordinary supply and the latter is important for the planning of C.S.S.D. 2) Most of supplies to the nursing units and O.P.D. are served by the routine supply. Frequency of extraordinary supply to a nursing unit is less than once a day and to O.P.D. is very low, too. 3) Supply to the operation department has difficult problems from the architectural point of view. As the frequency of emergency supply is four〜eight times in an operating case, the location of C.S.S.D. is required to be close to the operating suite. In larger hospitals, two supply facilities should be provided; one is exclusively for the operating department and another is for the other departments.
