Wichita eagle., 1889-05-07
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL.
The Big Institution to Be Opened on
Tuesday.

! BALTIMORE, Md, May 5.-Prominent
physicians from all parts of the country
will be present at the formal opening next
Tuesday of the Johns Hopkins hospital
| Over 200 invitations have been issued to
medical men and scientists outside OF
Baltimore No one will be admitted with
out card of invitation. The addresses of
DR.. John S. Billings. Mr.. Francis T. King
| and President d. G. Gilman will be delivered
| in the rotunda of the administration build
| ing. This building facing on Broadway is
the first entered on going into the grounds
and is the key to the whole institution.
| For the delivery of the address large
stand has been erected in the center of the
| rotunda. 1t is estimated that 500 can be
comfortably seated to listen to the speak
ers Itzell's Fifth Regimental band will
occupy the second gallery. A bust OF John
Hopkins is in front of the stand and there
is portrait of him at its rear. These
will be twined with similax and the
The rotunda, capped with a glass
dome, is nearly 100 feet high. The differ
ent classes of guests will assemble in the
front rooms, and at signal march to the
rotunda and take assigned seats. On
Wednesday the buildings will be open to
members of the medical profession. stu
dents, managers of benevolent institu-
them to take special interest in hospital
work. Thursday and Friday the public
generally may inspect the premises Sat
urday is reserved for the faculties of va
rious institutions in Baltimore and teach
ers of public and private schools
of every kind The dispensary for
the treatment of outdoor pa
tients will be opened May 10, and the hos
pital, with $50 beds, for the reception of
patients as soon thereafter as practicable.
DIR. VIM L. Halstead will be in charge of
the dispensary and acting surgeon of the
hospital. The resident physician is DIR.
LeFleur, of Canada Dr. VIM Osier, for
is professor of the practice of medicine, l.,
Winder Emory Is .purveyor and Miss
Hampton superintendent of nurses.
Sixteen buildings have been erected at
cost of 81 000, 900. Other buildings will be
constructed as they are needed. The late
Johns Hopkins, Of this city gave g. oOo, 900
to be equally divided in the founding
of university and a hospital. Most of
the endowment fund of the university is
in the Baltimore and Ohio railway stock,
from which no revenue has been derived
for more than year. The hospital fund
is invested in profitable real estate, the
liberal income from which has enabled
the trustees to bring to a successful COM
pletion the great work OF construction
The building and grounds cover three
blocks, about fourteen acres on north
Broadway, the main buildings standing on
an elevation overlooking the city. There
are eighteen buildings in all. The build
ing of the present hospital was commenced
about 1874. 1t consists of administration
bullying, apothecary's building. male pay
ward, female pay ward, nurses home |
kitchen, bath house, octagon ward, three |
common wards. isolating ward, amphi-
theater, dispensary, pathological building
and laundry. The pathological building |
and laundry are not open to visitors. The |
isOlating ward contains twenty beds for |
patients. The common wards have ca |
pacity for twenty-four patients each; the |
octagon ward has capacity for fifty-six, |
and each of the two pay wards have ca |
gives a total accommodation for 204 pa
tients.
1t is proposed to put up other buildings !
as necessary until the capacity of the hos |
pital is increased to 400 beds. Certain
rooms are devoted to work in pathological |
demonstrations, others TO meteorological
work, and others to experimental patho-
logy. The museum is already supplied
with large number of valuable PATHOLOGY
cal specimens. Rooms are also equipped
for microscopical photography. The
is we'll supplied with APP
paratus for teaching and for investigation
in all branches of pathology
There is large collection of material for
studies both in history and in comparative
There are great facilities for
special work in pathology The bacteria
logical laboratory is equipped with all the
required by the modern meth
DDS in this important document of investi-