New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-15
NEW BUILDING OF A HOSPITAL.
ADDITION TO THE HOMEOPATHIC INSTI.
TUITION.


ITS CAPACITY TO BE DOUBLED-THE STRUCTURh
A HANDSOME ONE, FOUR STORIES HIGH
fine new building for the Brooklyn Homeopathic
Hospital approaching completion in Cumberland-st.
Myrtle-ave. 1t represents On expenditure oi
about 100000 and will double the capacity Of tho
institution The former building, after having been
occupied for hospital purposes for seventeen years,
was entirely outgrown, and it. was decided to tear
down the old portion of the structure and erect a
new building upon the ground between 1t and the
street. and connected with the new wings. The
work has been carried on without interfering With
the caring for patients, although under many disad'
vantages
The new building has frontage of 1o7 feet, and
depth varying from 40 to % feet, the deepest ps7
being a wing extending TO Carlton-ave. The ouc
ing is four stories high and has a mansan ooL
The first story is built of red Gatelawbridge stone
the second and third of brick with stone trimmings
and the fourth of brick trimmed with terra coua
4 handsome effect has been secured by breaking inc
lines OF the facade In its interior arrangements 'n'
new structure is surpassed by none Of its. kind 70
This CITY, All the latest ideas about caring i@
patients and preventing the dissemination of the germs
of disease have been embodied I'm The structure.
On the first floor the office. examining room'
pbarmacy. dining rooms. pantry kitchen and matrons
rooms The rccepton ROOM parlor. directors room,
library and consulting the second hoor ~"
I'm the wings are beds endowed by wealthy patrons o'
special cases on the two hoors above are the hosp'
wards including 100 free beds There are dozen prNs
rooms for patients who afford TO pay for sPeciA
privieces 4 part of the old building back OF tn'
now one will be taken down afford light and air io'
an interior court. The quarters OF the Irainins
school for Nurses onneoted with the hospital, VIII p"
10 one wing. 49,.
The present hospital may be said TO be the oue
growth of the Homeopathic Dispensary founded u
1889 when there scarcely dozen pus S''s
in the city practising the principles of honeops'"!'
II was successfully conducted in Couri-st ana ''''o'
nor, IN Atlantic ave In 1871 the name was cnsnsei
w the brooklyn Homeopathic DiSpensaIy ana n ~
nita The following year the Old bHiIllng oi M
protestant Orphan asylum, AZ 40, 81 40 a. had under
ono suitable alterations It opened win zen ~ ~
in 1873 At different times It was eniaiyea oS osH
addition Of wings untll large hV smbniSnces of the
he accommodated. One OF me a am ho"n,,s,
Health Department Is attached TO the ~ Hs.,h IN
Erom the time OF its foundation uhlll M Ian hos
1882 DR.. Abbott f. sumner ma. IA, succeeded by Dr..
W'M T. Fiskc The present CHIEF OF me n ,n,nns
and surgical staff is DR.. Charles =. b9,ur vosas T.
the other visiting physicians Freeman Atwood f.
Lester heeP X Valentine and Hugh NJ. smith iG ~
rSIJent physicians DIS W, H. n W !, Wana;on
Allen, and the resident ,n,nsary IS Dr. r. f. Mead.
The pra,nnr snhoo for Nurses is snperniende' !"
Miss Harriet & Soi nItal cared for 676 patients sns
Last yesrss,tons were given al the dlspe ,nssns
The receipts Of the y year wer S5 The ambulance
S1,OoO 20 Iord.d 5a7 calls. The Ladies Ma On
SURGEON Witch includes many Of ne R essgn,St IA
wonen IN the city, has oeen mue,f na recently cor
raise tun"b isby successful fair The new no'PThe
ancEn viii bo ready for use early ~ p paS pres-
| officers o., ih 81 DE silver vcepresient; Aorr
GEM itht secretary II. ID. Atwaier treasurer
| Goodrich, co"hs'"