Rock Island Argus., 1895-09-24
A LAST ESSENTIAL.
What ST. Anthony's Hospital
Needs to Perfect 1t.
N ELEVATOR A NECESSITY.

The Surgical star Meets and Sets Forth
the Situntion-A Chance to Aid. In .
Practical and Permanent way, /. Ne.
serving cause-Hew VIII It bs Provided:
St. Anthony's hospital. now rapidly
approaching completion. will. 1t is
feared. be deprived of the chief es-
sential to its entire usefulness unless
the contingency which has developed
is provided for. This is not suggest
ed as a luxury that could be dis
pensed with or as a mode of conven.
fence entirely. but as practical and
absolute necessity.
Thee hospital staff Of the institu-
tion demonstrated the full realiza-
tion of this fact, when, at q meeting
at DIR. S. C.. Plummer's Office late
yesterday afternoon, the following
resolution was adopted:
Whereas, In the construction of
the new st. Anthony's hospital the
operating room is in the top story,
where it will be impossible to carry
by way of the stairs many Of the pa
tients requiring surgical treatment;
therefore, it is by the hospital staff
Resolved, That it is absolutely
necessary that the elevator be COM
pleted and ready for use at the car
liest possible time.
All That Is Lacking.
There are few people, probably,
who know what an institution has
been erected on Elm street bluff.
While the first, which was overtakcn
by flames, was fine and model
building in all respects. the one
which now rises as result of this
adversely is SO much an improve
ment in all respects that the sisters,
who, while grieved over the loss of
the former structure. just as they
were about to take possession of it,
are strengthened in the faith they
expressed that it was for the best.
The achievement which has come of
persistent aud unfaltering effort, of
courage undismayed and determine
tiOn undaunted, and with but one
object, and that humanity, and hu-
manity's cause, is in itself its own
reward. With every accommodation
and every facility essential to first
class hospital, the best feature of all
is the operating room, situated on
the fourth foor, remote from the other
departments of the building, away
from all noise and all disturbance OF
every kind, and in fact SO located
that the surgeons proclaim it
one of the finest in the state.
Illuminated 10y skylights and other
wise equipped with conveniences,
as described in The ARGUS. in
more detailed description of the
hospital heretofore published, it is in
all respects an ideal surgical cham
bcr. And that these advantages
should be detracted from in any way
by inaccessibility seems pity. Yet i,
is so, and now at the last it is i'm.
peratively set forth that an elevator
is required. 1t would be idle to con.
slider that patients from the operat
ing table, no matter what their af.
Fiction, whether suffering from the
effects of an immediate accident ol
of disease of long duration, could be
carried three flights of stairs.
The shaft has been provided, and
all that is necessary is the car. Il
will take $1,000 to supply it. Blu,
how to raise that amount is the ques
tion. The hospital, in itself the
fruit Of generous impulse and hu
name thought, should not suffer now
at the end for this one requisite
How is it to be provided?