New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21


of the vapors to the hues. All garbage and waste
passes through shute and Immediately burned
All the viands for the patients are carried IN feIt
boxes 70 retain their heat Besides this general
kitchen there is a nurses kitchen attached to each
ward with steam tables TO prepare any broth or
simple meal In the administration building besides
the offices and library are me private apartments for
the resident medical officers and students go
Next IN point of size and appearance TO the ad-
ministration building is the nurses home.
On the lower floors pallors, reception
and reading rooms, and training kitchen. On tho
upper floors are the sleeping apartments, each nurse
having her own room. feature OF the Institution
win be a school for nurses. When the hospital Is
first opened regular trained viii be employed.
but IN time their places VIII be aled by young women
trained in the Hopkins School under the instruction
of noted surgeons and physicians The intention is to
have three departments or classes OF nurses The
first will work IN the hospital wards, the second Will
be trained TO nurse in private families when such
services required, and the third will be district
nurses who Will work among the poor OF the city.
They will be detailed TO devote hour here or night
there among the suffering poor. The third branch
nurses win be paid Of the hospital funds, but those
In the second class hiring out will charge for their
services, The system Of charity nurses is new one
In this country. 1t is not known how It will work.
but It has been tried successfully in London
The amphitheatre in which students from all over
the country win gather to hear lectures and witness tho
work OF celebrated demonstrators, is constructed on
a novel plan Connected with It arc the dead rooms
and apartments In which subjects will DO prepared
for tho scalpeL There viii also be pathological
laboratory and waiting room for females 1t is I'M
derstood that the higher courses In medicine will be In
troduced as distinct feature Of the Johns Hopkins
University In which connection the hospital ex
perienoe VIII DO Invaluable to the student.
The laundry Of the great hospital is by no means
lnaot lnNar htdi 10
piled with remarkable apparatus for the cleansing
and disinfeoting Of clothing. A dspensary for tho
reatmens Of the general poor Of the city is provided
In large building erected for the purpose and which
stps ara pscay adaSsd ior
khs RerfSrmanoe q surgical operation Inc large
sasss s oS stS P so hssns
rahgcmenis be used for making the occupants Of
ths room very uncomfortable n make their stay too
whe feousnt them cling 70 the warm room in winter
Sn Gsy , are driven out TnosS who try to make
wi! 90 dl:sEsssoly sgrgrised when the bot air IS
nearly Oarries thsm Oh 1Sir feet The room can
70 heated 70 temperature OF ovor 1oe degrees In q
Besides tho dead-house or autopsy building de-
sctibed above there Is another large amphthestre
Tor the accommodation Of students Witnessing surgical
bali, containing tieES Of seats for 2oO SUI
denis. Lecture rooms, accident rccepton-roolns for
patients consulting rooms, etheriEins room for the
apartments for nurses are all ID this building There
are also wei equipped rooms in which patients rest
and recover from the shock Of operations. The beds
In Aesc rooms are supplied with movable cranes hom
yhiCR are suspended btraps and stirrnps by which
one Side of tho bed to the other.
only h1 be s dSo S@ Sns w
ventilated corridor: Three OF me roomf In these
wards have .cs winsas perforated ao3r fSr prodss
besides the several wards yet to be erected chapel
hmm 1lnUGa ka ConSt
Special attention is also being given ~ identifying
the grounds with trees, shrubborf and flowers.
La the planning end construction OF this wonderful
institution Tor the treatment of the STICK and the ad
vanoement Of medical science the most noted medical
men iu tho world have been consulted from time to
time as tho great work proceeded. It was in 1875
that Francis r. King president Of the board Of tr'is
and o oTganiiat lon Of &c hospital Dr. John BIZ
Dr. Norton Folsom. prOfsssOT Joseph Jones, of New
Orleans Dr. Caspar MOrris of PhhadelphIa and DIT.
1 FROM solocoa Of the best sgsostSns in tho widely
different views Of these gentienenl togeWer wMe
hospitals IN Europe, that the plans were finally
formed. ,,,, -. A..
digcnt sick the education of trained nurses and In
10 medical science aud It's PRONUNCIATION for the gen
President Gilman. of the Hopkins University, in
SseverS years before Johns Hopkins died he turned
his mind to humanity and how 70 benelt iiie eomlns
form no dodnto idea until one day Francis r
King sad to him: There are two things that never
dle1one is a hospital the other o university Hay
ing 10 Children be hirued his mind to these TWO OBJ
jeSts and gave soven millions to carry out the philsn
Continuing Mr.. Gilman said: "The hospital Will
DO q medical school for the university II Is 70 pc
IN heol institution. All the art OF modern science
has been brought to bear upon Its construction. II
Is a. complete In every way as II could Dc maze
In this Institution We see the broad idea OF mans
needs represented Men need better bodies and n,
lof for minor complaints. These cannot bs secured
by physicians going from house to house. Here WIN
be all the apparatus OF medical science, skilled Prec
Httoners and a body OF advanced workers. Ibis
Institution VIII teach the world great object hete
win be scientific observations that VIII DO OF ncs
cuiahle value TO medical men, aud In this great IN
stitution win also be trained large numbers OF PEI
sons TO tend the sick. Our outlay VIII soon %
Justified ,,-, 49,. M,
all been selected President Gilman says IhM ~:
0stley physician skilled in diagnosis VIII DO Lhe
chief and DR.. welch physician trained ~ hosp ,s
treatment 10 Europe, VIII have cnsrge oi ue PN'"'
logical department.