The record-union., 1895-09-19
MODEL Home FOR THE AFFLICTED.
The New Mater Msericordiae Hos
pitaI in This City.
An Institution Now Being successfully
Conducted By the Sisters
of Mercy.

A RECoRD-UNION reporter yesterday
paid a visit to the new Mater Miserl-
cordiae Hospital formerly the Ridge
HomeJ, at Twenty y-second and r streets.
now under the management of the Sis
ters of Mercy, and was agreeably sur
prised at the changes and improvements
that have been made there during the last
few months.
The Mother Superioress in charge re-
ceived the visitor with much cordiallty
and willingly conducted him through the
hospital, showing and explaining the
nature of the improvements made in the
building and its surroundings. She also
showed him the rooms occupied by pa
tients, the large ward, the operating
room, and all departments of the estab-
lishment.
Comfort and cleanliness were the dis
tinguishing features everywhere about
the hospital.
The rooms are all well furnished, the
bedding white as snow, and everything
desirable for the convenience and COM
fort of patients is provided. Competent
nurses are employed to attend patients,
and an experienced physician and sur
geon is present at all times to attend cases
of urgency.
The hospital has been open less than
two months, but already its aecommoda-
tons have been taxed, some days as
many as three patients have been admit
ted. AT times every room has been occu-
pied, but as some patients are being dis
charged right along, the Sisters have
managed to find room for all applicants
thus far. The Mother Superior said the
Sisters felt greatly encouraged over their
success thus far, and in a very short time
will have increased accommodations to
offer to the afflicted
All reputable physicians are at liberty
to send patients TO the hospital ana atten0
them there, and several have already done
so. Patients that have been discharged
speak in the warmest terms OF COM
mendation of the management, which IS
very gratifying TO the Sisters. for they
spare no pains to make comfortable those
who come under their charge.
In the short time that the hospital has
been open there have been two cases of
appendicitis successfully treated. The
operation which patient has TO undergo
for this COMPLAINTS very severe and often
fatal. but in both the cases treated there
the sufferers speedily recovered and have
been discharged.
The Sisters say they have received
many kindnesses at the hands of physi
clans and other citizens who appreciate
the value of their undertaking. one
prominent surgeon presented the hospi-
tai with a set OF modern surgical instru-
ments, and others have extended favors.
Superintendent Shock of the Central
Electric Railway Company has very
generously favored those in charge of the
hospital with free transportation on the
company's street cars, which saves them
much expense.
The Sisters have expended a consider
able sum OF money in furnishing the
hospital, improving the grounds, ETC.,
and will have to expend many thou
sand dollars more before all their i'm
provements are concluded. This outlay
they hope to be able TO meet through the
patronage Of those who desire the best of
modern treatment when afflicted with
physical ailments. Among the patients
now at the hospital are several from re-
mote counties, as we'll as from this vicinity.
During the reporters visit yesterday
number of persons called to visit friends or
relatives under treatment, and theyseemed
greatly pleased with the air of comfort and
cleanliness that pervaded every part Of the
institution. The building is kept so thor
oughly aired and every part of 1t is so
scrupulousiy clean that one might pass
through every corridor of the building
and not suspect that it was hospital.