St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26
TO CARE FOR THE SICK
st. Paul to Have a City Hos
pital adequate to All
It's Wants.
Plans Prepared and Ready to
Be Submitted to the City
Council.
The Building to Be Made Ac-
cording to the Most Mod
ePn Ideas.
lncease Of Hospital Work
Since the Present Build
ing Was Erected.

ot. Paul Is to have something i'm the
near future which she is very badly i'm
need of, and that is a new city and
county hospital. During the past few
years this city has had a remarkable
growth and the old building which, at
first, was fully large enough to accom-
modate the patients sent there, is now
crowded so that it is uncomfortable and
Inadequate to meet the demands made
upon it. During the first years of DIR.
Ancker'S administration as CITY and
county physician, the hospital cared for
Out 2OO patients; last year the number
accommodated was 900. From 20 "a
tlentS day the number has increased
to 90 and sometimes as many as so are
cared for. DIR. Ancker reports that
during the past winter from Il TO IL
people. mostly women, were Obliged To
sleep on the floor, all the beds i'm the
wards being occupied. The necessity
for larger quarters is therefore apparent.
The last legislature authorized an an
preparation of $4,000 for the erection
OF new city and county hospital.
ana appointed a commission with full
power to act i'll the building of it. The
following gentlemen comprise the com
mission: Col. G. ID. Kerr. K. +. Cullen
and DR.. Ancker. The plans and speci-
hcatlons of the new hospital have been
drawn up by the architects, Wilcox e.
johnson, and would have been
SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL
last Tuesday evening had there been q
meeting. The bOndSshaye already been
issued, and bids Will be advertised for
the erection of the new Structure in a
short time. The hospital, when COM
piete, will have frontage of 400 feet
and depth of eighty feet. The general
design of the building is based on the
plan OF the John Hopkins hospital at
Baltimore, which is considered the
finest institution of the kind i'm the
world. The hospital. which will be
rectangular in form. is composed of five
different buildings, an administration
building III the center, with two ward
buildings Oh each side. a large
hall runs through the whole
of the hospital will be a brick
structure containing the kitchen.
laundry and heating apparatus The
commission propose, at this time. to
erect only the administration building.
The other structures (the ward build
IngS) will be built when the necessity
exists for so doing. The administration
building is to be handsome, substantial.
two-stOry structure of ChaSka brick,
with light stone trimmings, the whole
surmOunted by tower. The following
Information is CLEANED from an exam
inatiOn of the plans: The basement is
provided with four rooms, called strong
rooms, for the detention of violent and
insane patients, also reception, bath
and accident rooms.
TTII1
contains the offices, the matron's rooms.
library, museum, drug. apOthecary and
physicians rooms. The second floor
contains the superintendent room,
resident physicians and nurses private
dining rooms and an operating room,
with etheriZing and recovering rooms
attached: A skylight furnishes
light for the operating room.
The third floor, or attic, serves
the purpose OF ward and will accOmO-
date about thirty patients. The main
or administration building will ioin the
present hospital which will not be torn
down until it becomes necessary to
build the last two wards. The main
building will be thanked by the ward
buildings. four in number. each 25x7O
feet. 1t is thought the hospital five
buildings will not be completed before
three years. The advantage this hos
pital will possess when finished is that
additions can be made without inter-
feriDg with the general plan of the
building or marring its architectural
beauty. The commission has visited
many of the principal hospitals of the
country, and in the construction of the
city hospital is applying the knowledge
gained and prOfiting by the experience
of others. DR.. Ancker says that he has
no hesitation in saying that when the
new buildings are finished, st. Paul
will have as complete municipal hos
pital as there is in the United States.