Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-08-07
AT THE QUEENS HOSPITAL.
THE VISITING COMMITTEE MARE
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
And Find Everything About the In
stItutiOn In FIrst-cIass order
Notes OF the visit.

Yesterday afternoon Trustees
Charles NJ. Cooke and Rev. Alex.
Macintosh Of the newly appoint
ed Visiting Committee of the
Board of Trustees of the Queens
Hospital, accompanied by rep
resentative of the BULLETIN, paid
an official visit to the institution.
The visit was made without no
tice to the officials and was for
the purpose of seeing how every
thing was going on and if neces-
sary to recommend any needed
improvements to the Board.
The out buildings, bath and
wash rooms were first inspected,
especially as to sanitary condi-
tions, and were found to be clean
ly and in good order and
supplied with abundance of water.
Indeed, 1t must be said right here
that the sanitary arrangements
throughout the hospital were ex-
cellent, the bath rooms on both
upper and lower floors being fur
nished with abundance of hot and
cold water at all times, and the
toilet rooms with all the modern
hygienic improvements.
Purveyor Eckardt's premises
were next visited, consisting
of private and public Offices,
dispensary, storerooms for drugs
and medicines and main
operating room. These we're
all found extremely neat and
clean, the instruments of torture
used by the operating physicians
being kept in neat cabinets, and
an assortment of splints, ,bandages
and other necessary appliances in
cupboards ready and handy for
immediate use.
Neatness and cleanliness seemed
to be the rule throughout the in
stitution, every ward and room
except those assigned to private
patients and for the private use
of the nurses being visited by the
committee. Trustee Cooke dis
tingdished himself by poking
about in cupboards and recesses
IN the vain endeavor to find a
cockroach, while Trustee Mackin-
tosh had CHEEKY word for each
and all of the patients. An alb
sence Of mosquitoes was pleasant
ly noted, as was the medicinal
smell usually inseparate from
hospitals. The latter is accounted
for by the perfect ventilation OBJ
tanned in the wards from the
numerous windows on either side.
The Kitchens were gone through
and the utensils and general
arrangements inspected. Every
thing was found clean and neat.
In fact, during the whole tour the
committee found nothing to be
remedied and but little to be i'm
proved. They will recommend
that ceiling be put in under the
roof of the old building. At pres
ent this is Himply whitewashed
over the smooth boards and rafters
and the whitewash is continually
scaling of and making the floors
beneath dirty and dusty. A cell
ing would stop this and would
have the effect of making the
temperature of the rooms much
cooler.
A visitors book is kept in the
parlor, but judging from the
names and dates thereon but
little interest is taken in the hos
pital by the residents of Homo
lulu. This is far from being the
case, but d glance at the boob
showing only one or two visitors
per month would naturally lead
to that inference. The rule re-
quiring all visitors to register
their names should be enforced at
all times or abolished. Frequent
visits from the trustees, as we'll as
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