The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-15
KEWIDEAS ATTHE HOSPITAL
A Building in Which 70 Quarantine Con-
tagious Diseases Is to Be Erected.
How The Ambulance Service Is to Be Hereafter
Msnaged-A Ward for Little Ones That
Appeals to the Charitable.

Soma extensive improvements are to be made
shortly at the City Hospital The board. last
Thursday, let the contract to erect new build
ing to be used as quarantine hospital. Work
will begin next week. and the building pushed
20 mplston as rapidly as possible. 1t will be
located just north of the main building, and
will cest abouE $1,000 Persons afflicted with
erysipelas scarlet fever and measles, in fact all
contagious diseases except smallpox, which dis
ease will be looked after at the pest house. will
DO put in the new hospital At present il is
necessary to isolate patients suffering with con-
taeion by placing them in out-of. the-way apart
nents in the fourth story Of the main building
The new building will be erected after
she most approved style. aud will have eight
wards. Nothing will be spared to make
3t first class in every particular. OF course
1t is not aimed TO build fine structure. but
rather to make it irst-class in all its equip
Enents and appliances. Buildings devoted to the
purpose for which IL will be used do not rs a
rule last more than ten or twelve years. At the
and If that time they have become so full Of
down destroy them in some way. To meet
shis difficulty Bellevue Hospital, in New York is
built of corrugated iron, which can be
thoroughly cleAnsed a. any time. 1t is not the
Intention to erect such building that.
An ambulance system is also - I've established
81 once. Heretofore nothing of the kind has
PEELED to rely on undertAkers. haekmen or any
one else who could be secured ia an emergency to
do rhs work. DR.. Oliver has just returned from
New York where he has made thorough in
speetion OF the systems in use there IN all the
prominent hospitals. especially those in use at
Bellevue and New York hospitals, AMI It - the
intsntiou TO secure equipment similar 70 the
best that could be found there. The Ambulance
will be irst-class. the harness of the automatic
hitching style used IN fire departments. the
stables and the groom's quarters will be provided
Erffh Aferfrfr Dir Oliver aRtlrnAL@S that
IL viii take one minute TO get
Nunder way for any part Of
and that the center of the city can be reached
in SIX minutes, the police headquarters in eight
minutes and tho UnIon Depot in the same time.
OF course a hne team will DO secured, one that
will be able 20 pull the hack over the streets at
rapid pace and get to the opposite limits OF
the city In very few moments. Sergeant Hen
~ Lindsey, with several years experience IN
the business, and IN full uniform. will occupy
the drivers box The ambulance will. of
course, contain full outfit of surgical instru-
nents and appliances, and the attending phyBi-
eians will be ready TO administer remedies or
perform any surgical operation necessary the
moment the patient is reached. II man has
taken poison be viii be promptly relieved with
out letting him die the way to the hospital.
rs has beer the case or II any other emergency
arises IL viii be met promptly without having
delay of Two or three hours as il has some
tines happened The system viii be inaugu
xated this week
Taken all around the City Hospital appears to
be In hrst-einss condition. IL is clean, we'll
ranged well ordered and well attended During
the past year there has been an increase in the
amount Of work done OF about 80 Der cent.
Nearly al the surgery in this part of the coun-
frv which formerly went 10 Chieago, ST. Louis,
Cincinnati and other iargs cities. 10 now done
here. DR. Oliver attributes tbs condition Of
AFFAIRS 20 the fact that indianapolis has At pres-
ent CORPS of physicians and surgeons which
compares fayorably with any city east west.
hence il IL not necessary TO go away from nome
a. find nen who eminent in any all the
lines Of the medical profession.