Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

'iueu Win ranges, sinks, large reifiSer-
ator, spacious closets and pantries, n dumb
waiter running TO the diningroom directly
overhead, and, in fact, every possible con-
venience.
| THE MAIN FLOOR.
| This, like the rest of the floors, is traversed
by two halls crossing each other at right
angles The front corner room at the right
and the room directly in its rear are set apart
for the occupancy of Miss Fletcher. Next to
Miss Fletcher's room and at the right of the
main entrance is the house-p physicians room
and at the lett the matrons while on the west
corner is the directors room. All these apart
ments are carpeted and neatly and hand
somely furnished. On the other side of the
main hall are four rooms similar TO those
already mentioned, one for reception-room,
one for the matron, one for the house-physi-
clan these being directly opposite their main
rooms), and one for some purpose not yet
designated At either end of the hall is
n room with bay window already referred to,
the one at the right being Miss Fleteher's
second room Just mentioned, and the other
not being yet appropriated. Like the rest of
the building all these rooms are finished in
pine, oiled aGd vanished, aud have hard
flushed walls, while the floor is of Georgia
pine. The apartments, particularly those at
the front, are remarkably pleasant, and those
for whom they are designed will find them
selves in most comfortable quarters.
Passing through n short hall on either
SHE of which open bathrooms and water
closets We enter the south ell. Here, at the
left, is the dining room, pleasant apartment
measuring about 16 by IS feet, having
dumb-waitex running to the kitchen below
and being provided with all the convenences
and appurtenances required. This is lighted
by five windows and makes an exceedingly
cheerful room. Opening from it is a spacious
buffers pantry. At the right is
THE DIsPESsAEY
a very important feature of the hospital.
This is provided with bottles and drawers OF
medicines, scales, etc, and IS in fact, n COM
plete Gpothecary-shop. The drawers are
neatly finished and handsomely labelled
and the bottles, which are of the newest de-
sign, bear upon them the name of the liquid
and the letters M. F. H." At the left and
opening upon the corridor which separates
the dispensary from the dining-room is n
small sliding window, like that of ticket
office, through which medicines and pre-
scriptions will be handed to the nurses, thus
obviating the possibility of distracting the
apothecary's mind or interfering with his
persons. At the right of this room is n side
entrance from the outside, which leads into
a small consulting room. This entrance is
for the use of the outside patients, who OBJ
tain their medicines through n window cor
responding to that on the opposite side for
the nurses. This dispensary can not fail of
proving great convenience and greater
benefit, and We look to see it largely used.
This completes the main floor. Ascending
u broad flight of stairs (at the first turn of
which, or half way up, are small rooms con-
tanning baths and water-closets, the arrange
ment being the same on every fight We
come to the second, or
WARD FLOOR.
This is intersected by a spacious hall
running east and west, on either side OF
which are the wards At the front are seven
rooms for patients and at the back are four,
the apartments ranging in size from 9 by l6
feet to 10 by Is, only two however, being ofthe
rear is to be used as II kitchen for minor
cooking purposes. to save the trouble OF run |
ming up and down stairs and to economic |
time and labor. The list OF apartments is
ally provided with shelves. etc, for the stor-
ing of linen and bed-clo.hing. The patients
rooms are most admirably adapted to their
intended purpose. The utmost care has been
paid to the important matter of ventilation
and while all the building is heated by steam,
each room also contains a fireplace and CRATE,
thus giving an additional guarantee OF per-
feet purity of atmosphere and also afiording
u Dtllti ppIpiiuHilN iol li-t ltIl-
perature. The furniture is the same in all
of the rooms, and consists of bureau of
ash, of choice design, finely polished, with a
handsome mirror ; a neat iron bedstead,
with an arrangement for canopy in the
if needed !; ashen weshstand,
and chair or two and an ashen
nedicine-stand, so arranged that the walls,
glasses, etc, required for the patient are con-
,ealed. The furniture is simple and appropri-
lte and with the neat and pretty pine finish
If the rooms, the clean white Of the walls, the
,heerful fire places and the roomy windows
With the Accomplishments of sunshine and
light, the wards make the pleasantest posi-
lie quarters and as attractive as one could
lesire, invalid OF not. One is at first really
Inclined to envy the future patients who are
o occupy such delightful rooms
THE THIRD FLOOR.
Another flight of stairs passing as before
ath-rooms and water-clOsetsl, and We come
0 the third floor. Smaller than the rest, this ,
as only five rooms, three of them for pa
ents-at the east, west and southwest corn ,
rs-furnished like the rooms down stairs
nd having ull their conveniences and appur-
chances. Between the two rooms first men
oned is storage-room and in the remain
~ corner is the water-tank from which the ,
ullding is supplied. Into this water is pump
1 and thence supplied to the whole build
.g-a laborious and announcement method
ON which it is to be hoped the hospital will
Deedily be relieved. On either side of this ,
DRY are the extensive attics formed by the
'of OF the wings, where there Is ample room
II storage or other purposes
One more flight of stairs his time mar I
Nv cne-and We attain
THE TOWER. oRI OBSERVATORY.
Here, leighty feet from the summit of the \
ILL., glorious view is obtained and one I'M
lualled in all this vicinity. On clear day
AXE Champlain can. be seen for miles upon
lies, flashing in the sunlight, with the vii =
ges and settlements dotting its shores and
e islands that bediamond its bosom on the il
her sides the country around for miles is 9
sible. with its villages and farm houses, its p
lis and mountains AID valleys, its fields 9
ID forests while Burlington anu Winooski, h
til the winding river n silver thread in the
udscape, can be studied as on an atlas. No C
'rds can express the splendor of the scene. fl
ID in no spot could poet or painter seek t,
CHER inspiration. Tue tower is of wood
appropriate design has glass on all sides, IL
d is surmounted by weather-yane III the Il
ape OF n scroll bearing the letters NJ. f. II. II
Rotracing our steps we now descend 10 the b
lin door. where from the annex at the rear II
the building, is the entrance to the CORR h
T connecting with the ward-room and am Ill
theatre. This, rs before stated, is about l.
feet in length and seven feet i'll width. n
lie floor OF the annex being four feet higher ca
IN that of the amphitheatre, the floor Of n,