The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04
LANE HOSPITAL.
Opening of the Second
Cooper Annex.
The New Institution to Be Thrown
Upon for Public Inspection on
Next Wednesday.

On Wednesday evening there will be
thrown open for the inspection of the pub
lie the second adjunct to the Cooper Medi-
cal College.
This is known as the Lane Hospital, and
has been named after the donor. This
makes the third gift by DR.. Levi c. Lane
to the Cooper College corporation, the cost
of all OF which has been over half mil
lion dollars.
The Lane Hospital, which will be opened
On Wednesday. cost $4,000. In 1882. DR..
Lane, recognizing the need of an institu-
ton Of the kind at a large cost, built the
Cooper Medical College, naming it after
his uncle, DR.. Elisha Cooper, a noted sur
geon, and giving in charge of body of
trustees known as the Cooper College cor
poration. In 1890 the institution had out
| lived its means of accommodation and
| large annex was built. Both buildings are
! just barely sufficient to accommodate the
number of students. this year over 200
| having matrculated alone.
! The hospital was built both to carry out
certain philanthropic ideas OF DR.. Lane
aud to increase the facilities for clinical
studies on the part of the students, who
/ will thus have an immense advantage over
other similar institutions.
All of these buildings have been built
ana palu sOr Dy LIT. Lane, VINO 0OnAteu
them to the college corporation.
Work on the hospital was commenced
last summer and no expense has been
| spared to make the structure perfect hos
pital 10 all its appointments. All the lat
est imprO Venents and devices known to
the 6est-equipped hospitals OF the East
have been provided In the Lane Hospital.
The building is four stories in height and
covers 50-vara lot. 1t will be capable OF
accommodating 100 patients.
The ultimate object of the donor is to
have the hospital entirely free, but in the
beginning a slight charge will be made in
order 10 run the lnstl ution. Two endow-
ments have already been given TO the Lane
Hospital, the names of the doners not hay
ing yet been given out. 1t is supposed th al
these endowments will be increased in
mum bers in a short while as the character
of the hospital is realized. and that the in
stitution can then be- run free of charge &c
patients. Surgery will constitute one OF
the chief features of the no pitaI, but al
other diseases will be treated in other
wards, an opportunity to see which will BIZ
afforded the public on Wednesday even
Ing when the whole building will be
lighted and thrown open for inspection.
The opening will be an suspicious one
from the fact that it will be made more
interesting by the presence of the members
of the American Medical Association
whose annual convention opens In this city
!
The Cooper Medical Institute opened
for its summer term on June 1. and the
opening was marked by an innovation
About $50 new students matriculated.
The innovation in the college is the in
crease in the period required for gradua-
ton. The term was heightened from three
TO four years. and this increase was made
necessary by the new curriculum which
went into effect Oh June l.
DR.. Richard II. Plummer, professor OF
anatomy of Cooper College, in speaking
of the extension of the probationary term
last night, said: The efficiency OF the
college has increased greatly In recent
wears, and so much has been added TO the
course of study that it has been found
that it was impossible Tor the students to
get through with the course. Our first
innoyation was to require an academic
, qualification in the matrleulatloD, and II
this qualification we're not possessed cor
. responding examination was required TO
entitte the applicant to admission.
5 "This innovation has been followed by
/ the extension of the term to four years
[ insread of three. The only idea in view
a | in adopting this course has been to raise
. The standard of the Cooper College. The
nrineipaI increase in the curriculum has
{ been in the direction OF surgery. anatomy
and practice
: "On emerging from the college the grad
] uate will be better equipped to enter on a
career of alieviating the ills Of hu-
manitY."