The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-09-02
ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL
How the Sick aud Afflicted are Ten
derby Cared For.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTS 4 TEACHER
A Teachers Library Association IL
Organized-Comm erciai club Will
Entertain Visitors from the East.
High school Receives a Gift.

The new sisters of charity who were
recently detailed to Saint Elizabeth
hospital in this city have settled down to
the work OF their community in their
new station, and no stranger viewing the
workings OF the institution would know
that change had taken place. The
former sister superior is now stationed at
Vancouver, WASH, where she has charge
of st. Joseph's hospital. The late
sister superior has been in North Yakima
six years and her new position is we'll
merited promotion.
During recent visit HERALD report.
er was shown through this institution,
which is certainly a credit to our city.
On the right as one enters is the parlor,
which is also used as an office, and in
case OF emergency can be turned into .
private room. Across the hall from the
parlor is the surgery and pharmacy at
tached. The stock of drugs and appara-
tus is ample and well arranged. Next
beyond this is a private room, opposite
which is the front stairway to the second
| floor.
Through folding doors thrown across
the wide hall way at this point, on the
| right, are bath room, ward containing
lour beds, and a sisters room, a dining
room for convalescents from the wards,
back stairs, and kitchen. No kitchen
could be cleaner or handler and the came
is true of pantry adjoining and of the
pantry just above on the second floor
connected with the kitchen by dumb
waiter. The pretty china, Hastily ar.
ranged on convenient shelves, could tell
MANY story of wholesome, dainty
strength giving fare served to needy pa
TENTS. On the same side of the hall az
The pantry, on the second floor are q
private room, a chapel, and another pri.
vate room, in the order named, the last
being in front and containing a very
pleasant bay window. On the east side
of the hall opposite this room is a com
panion to it and beyond this are the
stairway to the third floor, bath room,
a private room, ward with three beds
and a private room in the rear corner of
the building. The front half of the third
floor forms ward of six beds, used for
convalescents or those who are not very
sick, and the back portion is used as q
sleeping room for the sisters.
The little chapel is a very pleasant
place with its pretty altar and organ,
comfortable but plain seats, carpeted
aisles and pictured walls, and has afford
ed spiritual consolation to many one
whose physical condition has put him
especially in need of it.
This hospital accommodates twenty.
five patients comfortably and can take
care of thirty at once, as it has done oc-
casionally. No person is ever turned
away because Of poverty or difference in
religious belief, for the sisters VOW them.
selves not only to poverty, chastity and
obedience" but also to "the care of the
sick and poor" Not long since case
occurred where poor man was brought
to them with broken leg and was re.
ceived and cared for and the services OF a
physician secured, without any prospects
OF pay. The regular charges are from
six dollars to ten dollars per week, &C
| cording to location OF room, which III
cludes everything except the physician 8
charge. Every patient selects his own
| doctor without let or binderance on the
part of the sisters.
Sisters hospitals are familiar institu.
tons throughout the entire civilized
world and those who conduct them are
beloved Of all. LYDIA Rose McCabe,
writing of them in recent number OF
the Cosmopolitan, says: "To no woman,
perhaps, is awarded wider recognition
than to the sister Of charity. Familiar
in her ministrations, to the afflicted Of
mind and OF body; the soldier wounded
on the field OF battle, the prisoner under
sentence OF death, the orphan, the found.
ling, the outcast-recognizing neither
race, color. creed, nor condition of servi-
tude the sister of charity is known to
all men. She is the inspiration of the
poet, the painter, the romancer, and even
skepticism does not withhold respect
while her contribution to human anchor
alton is lost in the history OF civilization. y