Perfikot requested that a whole floor be provided specifically to accommodate the injured and sick brought by her, mainly to effectively disinfect the entire floor and prevent bacterial infection.
Although in this era there are beginning to be clearly defined roles of internists and surgeons, with resident assistant staff and nursing staff starting to manage medicinal materials and medical instruments professionally, and they check on patients' conditions, providing relatively more advanced treatments, etc...
In Perfikot's view, however, without the concept of disinfection, the hospitals of this era still felt very primitive to her.
If one had to describe it, the hospitals of this era felt to her like relief institutions equipped with doctors; they had some function, but not much.
