Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-05-07

Opening Of the Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore.
zee FINEsT m THE WORLD.

The FINEST IN THE WORLD.
Thirteen Years Have Beea Consumed In
the Construction Of the Eighteen BaiId-
ings at an Expense of Over -. .OOo, 900.
How the Project Was Conceived and
Carried out.
BALTIMORE, May THE Johns Hop
kins hospital was formally opened to-
day in the presence Of prominent
physicians from all parts Of the country.
Addresses were delivered in the rotnnda
of the administration building by DIR.
John s. Billings, Francis +. King, presi>
dent of the hospital board of trustees.
and ID. G. Gilman. president of Johns
Hopkins university. This building,
facing ON Broadway. is the first entered
on going into the grounds and is the key
to the whole institution For the de-
livery of the address large stand was
erected in the center of the rotunda. A
marble bust of Johns Hopkins was in
front of the stand, and there was a pOr-
trait of him at its rear. These were
twined with smilax and the stand
adorned with potted plants. The ro-
tunda. capped with a glass dome, is
nearly 100 feet high. The guests as
sembled in different rooms, and at sig
nal marched to the rotunda and took
seats.
Programme for the Week.
On Wednesday the buildings will be
open to members of the medical profess
sion, students, managers of benevolent
institutions and others whose pursuits
lead then to take special interest in hos
pital work. On Thursday and Friday
the public generally may inspect the
premises Saturday is reserved for the
faculties of various institutions in Balti-
more, and teachers of public and private
schools of every kind.
The dispensary for the treatment of
outdoor patients will be opened en- May
13, and the hospital will be opened with
100 beds for the reception of patients as
soon thereafter as practicable. DIR. Will
liam J.. Halstead will be in charge of the
dispensary. and acting surgeon of the
hospital. The resident physician is DIR.
Leheur, of Canada DR.. William Osler,
formerly of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, is professor of the practice of
medicine, L. Winder Emory, purveyor;
Miss HQnpston superintendent of nurses.
St1story OF the Hospital.
The Johns Hopkins hospital has been
thirteen years in course Of construction.
In 1878 Francis T. King, president of the
board of trustees, invited suggestions
from five distinguished hospital experts
regarding the construction and organi-
cation of the hospital. They were DIR.
John 8. Billings, then assistant surgeon
United States army: DIR. Norton Folsom:
Professor Joseph Jones. of New Orleans;
DIR. Caspar Morris. of Philadelphia, and
DIR. Stephen Smith, of New York, From
the views of these experts and from i'm
formation obtained from the heads of
prominent European hospitals the plans
for the construction of the institution
were formed.
The founder left $1,000, 900 to be
equally divided for founding Of a uni
vers:ty and a hospital, the fund for the
latter being invested in profitable real
estate, the liberal income received from
which has enabled the trustees to carry
the work to a successful completion.
Objects of the Hospital.
The objects of the hospital, as in
dicated by the founder were: The proper
care of the INDECENT sick. the education
OF trained nurses and incidentally of
physicians, the promotion of discovery
Al AfANOAAuA nSANAAI( 0AAO AeC
for the general good. Here will be
found all the apparatus of medical
science and the most skilled pracfition-
ers in the various branches of medicine.
Model Methods of Ventilation.
In the construction of the building
special attention has been paid to the
matter of ventilation, and in this par
ticular it is unequaled by any hospital
in the world. Open fireplaces are to I've
found In every room simply as an aid to
ventilation. Hot water is used for heat
ing. In the basement is located the ven
tiiating apparatus. BY the use of this
and fresh air regulators the air is
changed in the wards every fifteen min
utes. A '.telemetsrp In the room of the
medical director shows the temperature
in various parts of every ward, which
can be readily changed when found to
be too high or too low.
In addition to the open fireplaces,
there Is In the central hall of each pa
vlii0n an enormous shaft for yentila-
ting each entire floor. In the nurses
room IS an thermometer to measure the
velocity Of the current upward into the
ventilatihgA shaft. which rapiditv IS
necessary faR constant supply OF pure
air. Throughout all the buildings the
pipes are exposed SO that they can be
:rqadily examined Nos sewer matter is
/, allowed to pass under any of the build
ings. Fecal matter flows through
large pipe, frequently flushed with fresh
water. into an enormous well ventilated
By q hue 120 feet high.
Liam Of the buildings.
The buildings and grounds cover three
blocks. about fourteen acres, the main
buildings standing on an elevation over