The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-04
1T is A PERFECT PALACE
St AIMS Is One Of the Best Hospitals
In The State.
EVERY PART is COMPLETE
The Building as Recently Com
pleted Is Handsome, Com
modious and Splendidly
Equipped.


progress that have moro than doubled the
capacity of the institution and have in
creased in many ways its convenience
and comfort. Accommodations for about
100 patients are now afforded, or will be in
few weeks more, when the furnishings
are received which have been ordered.
BY the kindness of the sisters and DIR.
l.. l.. 81. Jean a reporter made a tour of
the building which is here recorded for
STANDARD readers.
The building Is a beautiful three-story
brick and stands near the foot of the noun
tains in the southern part of the city. 1t is
surrounded by broad piazzas from which
beautiful views of tho nils and the stretch
of the valley are commanded. On these
in the pleasant evenings of summer the
sufferers SIT and inhale health with every
breeze and strength from the prospect of
earth which lays before their eyes. The
main entrance faces the north and is
reached by broad granite steps, while over
il there are graceful arches, making a
facade that is ornamental and at the
same time useful as porch when desired
= or necessary.
On the first floor, as 1t is entered through
this entry, are found spacious private
rooms for guests where all the privacy of
home can be secured and quarters most
convenient.
All of these private apartments are to be
furnished with brass or white enameled
iron beds, trimmed with guilt ornaments
Springs of woven wire and mattresses of
the most approved pattern make the
couches as easy as bed of pain can be
made. The floors are to be carpeted and
pictures hung on the walls. At the
south end of the wide hall is the new
chapel, as complete and perfect in its ar
rangements as any cathedral in the land.
The windows are all of stained glass and
in the eastern end of the little room is a
beautiful window on which there are the
figures of Sister Margaret Mary and the
Savior, who is appearing to the sainted
Sister and pointing to the Sacred Heart.
A vestry and closets for the convenience
of the officiating priest adjoin the altar.
1t is coy and we'll appointed house of
worship. Broad stairways lead to the
third hoor and there, too, are found a
number of rooms for private patients, be-
sides ward rooms, which are equally as
comfortable as the other rooms, though
not SO handsomely furnished. The beds
viii be white enameled iron and are as
comfortable as possible. On this floor is
the operating room, which has been pre-
pared with special care for cleanliness
and convenience. The floor is of cement.
there are lockers for bandages and instru-
ments, water, hot and cold, at ready COM
mand, and light is secured from windows
which fill the western side of the room.
An operating table OF the latest design
made of enameled rods, with heavy glass
plates on which the patient is laid has
been secured at a cost of over 500. The
table can be shifted by a cunnInRIy con-
Z trived mechanism SO that a person being
operated upon can be placed and held in
any position to suit the will of the operat-
ing surgeon.
Adjoining this is a room specially ar
ranged for the care of the wounded dres-
eli ri in m nd nl1
the surgical ward. This is one of the
largest rooms in the house and is we'll
lighted. As to general equipment of
which nothing has been SAID heretofore
and which are the most important of
all in building devoted to the
care of the sick and afl cted nothing bet
ter could be conceived than is found in
this institution. Bath rooms and water
closets are found on every floor and are
kept with the greatest neatness. A per-
feet system of ventilation reaches every
room in the house, fresh air being sent in
continually from the outside by a Boston
blower, which is located in the basement
Ind fans cool air into every room through
pipes graduated in capacity to the size of
the room. The building is heated by hot
air, which is admitted to the apartments
from the ceilings and continually crowds
the impure down and out through the
yentilators near the floors. A
laundry chute takes soiled linen
from every floor direct to the wash
room in tho basement. An elevator car
ries up the trays from the kitchen and re-
turns them when the guests have received
their meals. In the basement are the
quarters of the Sisters of Charity, who
are in charge of the institution, their dim
ing rooms and work rooms. The new
kitchen is a model of convenience. There
are slate sinks for the washing of dishes
and culinary utensils, closets and lockers
beyond counting. Hot and cold water TO
be had by turning faucet. Storerooms
for pantry supplies and vegetable cellars
are reached by step and every facility
for the preparing of food quickly and
cooking it we'll is afforded. Last but not
least in this establishment which has a
splendid record in curing all who seek re-
lief here from disease, are to be men,
toned the gentle sisters who keep watch
and ward over its guests.
Sister Irene is in charge and the late
changes and improvements have been in
augurated and completed under her d.
rect supervision. Her staff of assistants
is small at present, but will undoubtedly
be increased when the new quarters are
completed. Though few in number they
are diligent and faithful workers devoted
TO the sacred duties to which they have
devoted their lives. Sister Delphine pre-
sides in the kitchen and many a man will
say that new life has been gained owing
TO her dainty dishes which reached his
bedside when he was wasted by illness.
Sister Baptista is in charge OF the dining
room and assists in the culinary DEPART !
meut.
The first floor and patients treated |
there are cared for by Sister Mary An |
selm, nurse whose touch is healing.
whose tender care has made the road to |
health an easy one. In passing through |
the halls little room on |
this floor was overlooked. but il |
is most important department over
which Sister Generosa presides: il is the |
drug store or pharmacy. Sister Cen |
erosa compounds the prescriptions for the |
house patients, and her eyes that twinkle |
in Jest with the downhearsed or dim with |
sympathy for the distressed are looked |
for by the poor fellows eagerly as she |
brings TO their bedsides the healing drugs. |
Sister Veronica is the ruling gentle genius /
OF the second floor. She loves her work |
and thinks she has the best department /