New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21
ANOTHER GREAT HOSPITAL
A MONUMENT OF THE PHILANTHROPY OF
JOHNS HOPKINS.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT HOS
PITAL AND MEDICAL, SCHOOL PRESENTLY

1
P1TAL AND MEDICAL SCHOOL PRESENTLY
10 BE OPENED AT BALTIMORE.
| tTRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT TKBUNE
Baltimore, April Gothic Johns Hopkins Hos
pal which has been building thirteen years. will be
formally opened Tuesday, May z. Tho founder gave
81 oO6 900 10 be equally divided the founding of
| university and a hospital. Most Of the endowment
| hnd Of the university IS in Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road stock from which 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 successful COM
petion the great work Of construction. The buildings
and grounds cover three blocks about fourteen acres
en- north Broadway the main buildings standing on an
| elevation overlooking the city. There are eighteen
buildings In all. The administration building, sur
mounted by lofty dome stands in the front centre
Of the group. Here are located the offices Of the
trustees and the faculty and several halls for medical
lectures Extending from this budding 10 and through
the other etr,ictures s wide and Dfy corridor the
| top OF which forms open terrace walk on ievel
with the hospital ward floors. To prevent even tho
possibility Of foul air passing from one ward TO another
| Il was decided to have but one floor in pavilion
devoted 10 a ward All tho paWiions have basement
| nine feet high raiEed above ground, laid with
granoithIo flooring containing only the heating and
yentllating apparatus and connected directly win
| the closed corridor. The only two buildings Win
which this corridor does not communicate are the
dead. house and tho laundry With the exception OF
tho pay-wards none Of The buildings can be entered
] from the closed corridors except by first passing
through the open air. The aat-terraoed roof on the
corridors IA supplied with guard rails and IS Intended
tor exercise OF pattent In fair weather. The wards
| extend eastward from the administration o'ndins
] IN two parallel lines. The nrst two wards are for
| the bettor class OF patients. The ward
floors are 124 feet above mean uoe
| Thars are two isolated wards, each with
| - tnaffr nd other
90 that Il can be shut on completely rom INC EeS' "
! the hospital
II was tho expressed wish Of tho founder thar noa
morn than 400 persons DO accommodated at any one
time and 1t Is for this fhAs IN mo wards mus
tr constructed thero but e2a beds PROVISION "
made that Zach patient shan have 100 ieet On LOU
spaoo 90 that the sufferer win not ol oro"ued Is
above number Of beds does NOT incude tho0e In the
secadent ward and In The pay and SolAtng warts
soparate rooms arc provsnd for the patents In The
common octagon wards. however, beds arc arranged
! M one roou though there are In each ward four
separated rooms for certain cases inst may REQUIRE
| special light and temperature TOO common wsrus
! are each n4noty-one feot long By thirty-two feet
| hzoad with twelve beds Arranged ON either side the
Apartmept az least one window fBtns tho space DO
| tween two beds large ventilating shaN occupies
Tho centre OF each and there no time OF aay
when the suns rays do not penetrate some portion of
| the room.
The pay wards arc Supplied with prtvste bath
| rooms, dlnngrooms and Kitchens. Tho walls are
painted In OIL and the furnishings only httle better
than Tn the wards. An iron bedstead Win brass
knobs three chairs wardrobe, washstand and ourean
| constitute the furniture The pay ward for mon Is
completed and ready for occupancy but the paw ward
for women will not DO finished for Some months TWO
buildings arc yet be erected but work VIII not DO
begun on them untA the hospital Is In full operation
! and the needs Of tho institution demand them The
| treatment OF Contagious dlS-
cases Each patient Will have separate apartment
the ventilation OF which Is mnde through an individual
shaft In It's system Of ventilation the Hopkins Hos
pital Is an Improvement all the other Hospitals IN
| the world.
| The problem OF heating being so closely connected
with that OF ventilation In hospitals these two highly
nporant features ygoTo considered together In ma
| turing tho plans Open hrcplaoes ore to DO found In
eyery sick-room 10 aid in ventilation but not TO be
| used for heating purposes. Hot wster IS used for
| beating simple device, automatic switch
| daInper is generally used 30 admit tesh air. The
principal ventlang apparatus is located IN tho oase-
mcnt by which, in connection with the fresh afr rog-
sters the air IS changed In tho wards o~ery hreen
minutes. IN damp or sultry weather fan arrange
mont forces the air through tho switch dampef In
the medical directors room is an electrical Instrument
called teemetor." by which no can SEQ at glance
the temperature OF various parts of every ward IN
| the entire hospital, and II tho heat be too
| oroa, or too little no can order its meditation by
decreasing or increasing the amount Of air In given
| switch damper that Is to pass around tho coils
In the central hall Of each pavilion In addition to the
Oman fire places and air registers there Is an enoF
mous shaft for venttatlnR each entire iloor In the
nurses homo Is an anomometer TO measure the
yelocity Of the current upward into the ventilaeng
shaft which rapidty is necessary 10 replenish pure
air Tho attIcs above the wards have also tho best
| OF ventilation
Throughout all tho buildings the pipes arc ex-
| posed SO that they easily DO examined. No
| sewer is allowed to pass under any building Focal
matter flows through largo pipe frequently flushed
with fresh water into immense Well ventilated by
| fiume 100 fcet high
No mouldIngs are allowed on tho furniture or
| woodwork lest shrinkage SCANS and cracks
| for the lodgment of disease germs. The walls are
al toiued I'm ssgments Of orioles and not IN hight
| angles the waShboard joining tho hoor. For
similar reason all the fittings and Joints arc tight
| The aoors are OF welLseasoned hard yellow pine,
| we'll oiled to prevent absorption.
For bathing, the Turkish. Russian; mercury, Vspoi'
electric noodle plunge and other bath rooms are
| provided For patients unable 10 move far nom
their beds novel cont1vance in the way OF com
plete portable bath tub Is brought TO the Dedsiuo'
The boiler house resembles some large macnihe
shop. IL Is underground and contains tour hoi "ae
| and three steam boilers, tho last communicating
directly through tunnel 10 the amphsheStre anu
dispensary building They also provide steSln ior s
boilers of the kitchen and the stesmns tables snrOusn
out the buildings. Pumps In this same aearensns
raise filtered water tanlUs capable Of nouin ~
100000 gallons and held a. reserve IN $50 -
accident TO tho wator main feeding tho nsH'u.Oa
the breaking down of the cty's rsesVo'iS ~ a.
win be seen that provision Is made ior SunSS' iui
| possible contingencies. .o..h,,
The Kitchen in It's novel arrangements probably
superior 70 any other Kitchen in the world. an
modern eenvsnIsness In the Raz Of sseA apparatus