The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-12-06

part and q home. If any occupation deserve not this,
it ought not 10 be encouraged, much less supported
by an enlightened society
The corner stone of the Queens Hospital
was laid with appropriate ceremonies on the
18th Of July last. and the building IS now
finished and ready for occupancy. 1t will be
thrown OPEN to-day for the inspection of the
public. and those who wish to examine one
Of the finest buildings on these islands, viii
improve the opportunity and visit it. As soon
as the necessary furniture is completed, pro-
baby next week, patients will be received
into 1t. 1t may be well here TO state that
Is IL Is contemplated 10 receive and provide
for foreign seaInen in the Queens Hospital.
the arrangement for receiving foreign seamen
Will be one of great Importance 10 those ma
tons which accept it, mainly in reducing the
heavy expenses generally formed TO ACCOMPANY
all measures for providing for sick seamen
abroad. So far as can be foreseen, nothing
can prevent their being as well and perhaps
better cared for than under any other svs-
TEN.
The following full account of the building,
prepared for tine P0iynesian by one of the
Trustees, will be Of interest to those abroad
The Queens Hospital consists Of one large two-s,ory
building and two outhOuses hanking the same in the
rear, and has been erected at n cost of about Sl4 600
The principal building has q frontage of 100 feet by
q depth of is feet, erected Of coral stones 10 a height
Of about 30 feet, with 10 feet verandah running the
full front o. the building the first floor, raised on a
basement about FIVE feet from the ground. is reached
by ascending the broad aight of stairs running the
full breadth Of the principal portico, and the visitor
enters a hall in the center of the building, u by %
feet, which hall contains the principal staircase. 6
feet wide. On the left Of this hall is the Reception
Room, next 10 it the Assistant Physicians room, the
latter also adjoining the Dispensary. This chief
business room of the establishment is also entered
from the verandah, on which dispensary patients
will assemble, and on quitting the Dispensary they
VIII leave by the door In the end of the building,
thus regulating or preventing all noise ia the estab-
%lishment. A corridor s feet wide, divides the width
Of the building in two nearly equal COMPARTMENTS,
arranged for wards, &c, &c, in both stories. The
lower story contains. besides the rooms already mem
toned. three large wards, a dining saloon, bath
rooms, store rooms, SC. The second floor contains
FIVE wards of different capacities, corridors, dining
rooms &c, &c. All the wards, affording comforta-
bic space for about Us beds, are so arranged with
extra doors that the same may at any time be sub
divided into smaller wards, private rooms &c, &C,
if required Height Of the first story Is feet that
Of the second ii feet. The building is further pro-
vided with two extra flights of stairs, leading from
each end of the inner corridor to the second story,
thus connecting the upper wards, &c with dispen-
sary, &c, &c. Throughout the whole building, in
order to purify and constantly admit fresh air, ven
tilation is obtained through double rows OF ventla-
tors near the floor and ceiling, which again are reg
ulated by sliding covers.
In the center of the building. over the principal
staircase, on the roof, which is fat, and of the new
aspnaitlc patent cOmpOsltlOn, n large raised SkyIlght
with venitians all around, provides, in connection
with openings in the ends of the building, n constant
circulation of fresh air, which material benefit, of
light and pure air." essentially necessary to a
hospital in a hot climate, is thereby gained without
exposing the patients IN any way, nor in any part
of the establishment, to drafts, equally disagreeable
and dangerous.
The whole of the inner side of the walls, rs also all
partitions of wards throughout the building, are plas-
tered on both sides, making a dry, healthy and sub
stantial finish.
The oursiIa Of tho moi, bu;ll;p, ,,ra,ba r;,b
verandlh in front, pOrticos on the ends and rear Of
the same, are finished and ornamented in modern
style, and with due regard TO economy. 1t has been
planned so as to give this = Landmark of the gener-
osity Of its Royal patrons and the people =" that share
OF architectural ornament and pleasing finish, well
becoming so charitable an institution and such a
living - proof Of the kind heartedness of the COM
munity in these Islands, ]
The two building in the rear contain a sub.tan-
tal cookhouse Of stone, connected with store rooms,
servants rooms, wash house, stables, &c, &c.
The contract for the erection of the whole estab-
lishment, except the coral stones furnished by the
Government, was awarded TO Mr.. G. H.. Levers.
The mason work has been done by Mr.. G.. Thomas,
the carpenter work by Mr. c W. Vincent, the paint
er's work by Mr. r. GilIland, and the whole work g,
has been executed and finished by Those gentlemen in g,
n good and faithful manner. :
To Mr.. l.. G. Heuck, who planned the +
building, belongs in no small degree, the Q
credit of the handsome structure which has i,
been completed. BY profession an architect, !
N' - lNANNiNP AA4lllA Will NlC Ntldll> VI ,
buildings, he has devoted a larger ;
share of his time to this object than any {
one could have presumed to solicit from v
him, and has watched over the whole work |
with the utmost fidelity. To HIM is due c
more than to any other person the praise of
securing the admirable plan of ventilation
which will render the hospital at all =
of the year, cool, pleasant and healthy. :.
In n warm cliutata fliS IL n ,,,ip+ +nn If -
tie attended to in erecting dwellings, and we i
have here the first introduction of systematic E
ventilation. =
We hope that the Trustees will soon be Il
able to provide means to enclose the caHre n
premises, so that improvements may
be begun, in the way of planting trees, which "
in the course Of Il few years might make the p
a pleasant grove, though now appar- a
entity barren and sterile. The valley water II
will be introduced in a few months, and then
will render verdure easily attain r.
lble. Who would have thought three years II
that the hard rocky soil of the church. Il
yard of Kawaiahao had sufficient substance to
life to trees? Yet it has, and the grove CT
Of algeroba and pride of India trees now -
up there, will remain as a green, h
living and enduring monument, when her ii
hands, who planted and nursed them, shall Sc
lie cold beneath their evening shadows. We W
point TO this churchyard to show how great tn
change 4 few years may effect, when sub
tantia1 enclosures are erected to protect young =,
rees, without which no care or diligence :
will be of much avail. We cannot better ~
our remarks than by giving a list of 10
he officers and Trustees of the institution n
His Majesty KANEH.NEHA ", Perpstsai President. W
C.. r Bishop, Treasurer. ~