Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-01-06
building are two rooms for maternity cases.
They were not in use yesterday.

They were not in use yesterday.
The most beautiful and most complete
part of the buildings is the new Farnam
memorial, erected in 1888 by Mrs. Henry
George B. Farnam. This wing occupies
6Ox20 feet. It consists of one large operat-
ing room or theater, with three other main
rooms. These are receiving room for acct
dents, recovery room after operations, and
a surgeons consulting and retiring room.
Access to the building from the hospital
proper is by a well lighted and warmed cor
ridor, which opens into hall, from which
ID partitioned off a small etherizing room,
in which those patients who come for opera
ton from the hospital wards may be anes-
thetized before entering the operating thea
ter, The entrance for students is from the
outside by separate door and vestibule
from which stairs ascend to the rear OF tier
of seventy seats. This whole room is cover
ed by glass skylight rising to forty feet at
the peak of the roof.
Around the outside wall above
the rear seats are many windows.
The arena for the operating surgeon is 10
feet in diamater. The rear portion is con-
,nected by wide doors with the accident
room and hall, and Immediately from the
latter with the recovery room. In this por-
| ton, against the rear wall, is placed the
aseptic-instrument case, made entirely of
glass and metal. Over this is placed bronze
tablet with the following inscription in raised
letters:
This Building has been erected
By Mrs. Henry Farnam as Memorial
George Bronson Farnam. M. D.,
Who faithfully served this Hospital as attending
Physician and Surgeon from 1879 to 1877, and
though cut off from professional &c: activity
during the remainder OF his lie by
further its interests and to min
lister to the suferings of
others.
born AR Rs a s &C. IT, ssy Haven where
Above this is large portrait of DR.. Far
nam.
| The accident room, 1918 feet, is entered
from without by wide double doors up to
which the ambulance can be backed, pro-
tected by a small roof extending over ths
body of the ambulance. The rolling bed of
the ambulance can be projected directly into
the room and the patient moved to the exam
ming table with the least degree of disturb
ance. The top of the examining table is
| composed of frame containing a fiat sheet
iron Colds patent radiator, through which
by a connection with the hot water
faucet stream of hot water may
be passed. This radiator is covered by
a thinly-padded mattress upon which the pa
tent lies. By this arrangement patient in
state of collapse or shock may have warmth
applied with the least possible delay and
trouble, to exactly the right place. i. e.,along
the spinal cord, a very great Improvement
over the usual hot-water bottles from which
accidents occasionally arise. So far as known
this method is unique to this hospital. The
examining table is arranged for wheels for
the legs at one end, and has movable handles
at the other, SO that it is at once movable
and steady. A porcelain lined bathtub and
sink are also in this room.
The floor of the entire Farnam addition is
made Of asphalt.
.l~Tbe Basement Of the hospital buildings are
used for the cooking headquarters and for
other things of the kind. Dummy waters
run up to the dining rooms of each ward a1S
the food is carried in tin apparatus, the
bottom of which is filed with hot water
= In this way every thing is kept warm and
one of the rooms ia reserved for the nurses
to practice the necessary art of making nu'
tritious and light little dishes, such as Gus.
tards, gruels and the like, for their patients
The laundry department of the institution
is in a separate bailding in the court yard Of
the hospital In it are the most approved
! machines for cleansing, drying and ironing
the articles of clothing and whatever liner
, may be sent there. 1t is kept in the neates
! kind of order.
Superintendent Starkweather says thai
one Of the greatest needs which the institu'
, ton has at present is that of new building
apart from the main structure for q steam
heating apparatus. The present quarters ART
in the basement. They are cramped and
there are not enough accommodations. The
ashes and such unavoidable consequence
are also unpleasant to have about the base
ment where the kitchen affairs are manip-
ulated. The improvement, however, woulc
cost great deal of money, and it is MOI
likely that it will be made for some time t.
come.
The number of persons employed in the
work of the institution, apart from tn.
superintendent assistants, the nurses ant
the doctors, Is about thirty. These are most
ly laundresses, cooks, and ward attendants