The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-14
THE NEW ST. LUKE's HOSPITAL.

The arrangement Of the wards is, Of
course, the most important matter. In
the most approved method they will be
isolated, with cross ventilation such that
the air can be frequently but gradually
changed, and so heated that the required
temperature can be steadily maintained.
Though the accommodations of the
patients is the most important thing, q
hospital with wards alone would not be
very useful, and in the disposition OF the
different departments OF management
and supply there is as much Of a problem
as in the placing of the wards. Without
well situated and arranged administra-
tion building a hospital, good in other
ways, would be OF little value. As the
entire lot is finally TO be covered, the
natural place for the administration
building is the one called for in the in
structions in the centre OF the lot, at the
west end Of the park, now TO be built
upon.
AS st. Luke's is part of Trinity, there
will also be accommodations for relig-
ious exercises, and two chapels are
needed, large one for ordinary services
and the other to be used as q mortuary
chapel.
The chapels are placed in the rear part
OF the administration building, with q
separate entrance on One Hundred and
Fourteenth street. The offices, staff
rooms, &C., occupied the lower floors in
the front Of the administration building,
in the fourth and fifth stories of which
are the kitchens and the convalescent
ward.
Mr.. Flagg's plan follows the French
style OF constructing large buildings and
will give to the completed building q
symmetrical appearance. The admins
tration building is set we'll back from
One Hundred and Thirteenth street,
which II faces, and on which are the
superintendent residence and a house
for the directors rooms, &c, making a
partly inclosed court. The rest OF the lot
is occupied by four square pavilions at
the angles OF a rectangular court. These
are connected at each story by arcades,
ceiled at the springing OF the arches as
well as above their crowns, so that in
winter the lower part OF the openings
can be closed, while leaving the upper
part open for free circulation into the
court. The pavilion to the northwest
is for the nurses home and has commu-
nication with the other and the ad-
ministration building only at the first
story, the corridors at the other stories
running by 1T. The pavilion to the
northwest on the corner of One Hun
dred and Fourteenth street and Morn
ingside avenue, contains the private
rooms. The pavilions to One Hundred
and Thirteenth street contain the wards
arranged on the southern halves with
the long sides to the south, 80 as to get
the largest possible amount OF light and
air. The dependencies are placed in the
northern halves in the court.
In Mr.. Flagg's plan as contrasted with
the others submitted TO the trustees, there
are but three divisions of the elevation
on One Hundred and Thirteenth street,
and the third, the administration build
ing Is set back so that the other two
square pavilions with comparatively low
roofs form the principal part of the ia
cade. But to mark the Importance Of the
building which, as the
chapels are In the rear, retains a charac-
ter which may be called Official, IL is
crowned by a dome which rises far above
the remainder of the structure.