The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
MASONIC HOSPITAL.
Plans Accepted-Descrlption of Pro-
 posed Building.

All of the details of the proposed Ma sonic hospital in Wallingford have been agreed upon by the committee and tEe architects, Davis & Brooke, of New Britain, plans have been made and ac- cepted and it is intended to go ahead at once with the construction.
 The building is designed in the colo nial style, the material to be used in it's construction being red brick with terra cotta trimmings. The roof will be of slate and the underpinnings of granite. On the first floor will be the entrance opening into a reception hall, with the main staircase ascending in a spiral round the main elevator, which will be htted with the best and most approved attachments. The elevator has an en- trance at grade in the rear of the build ing, so that patients can be easily and quickly transferred from the ambulance and carried to any part of the building. The plans call for a main building known as the administration building | with two wings, only one of which, however, is to be constructed at pres ent At any time in the future it will be possible to add the second wing and still preserve the unity of the whole, On the first floor of the administra- tion building is the resident physicians S office, the dispensary and the living apartments used by him. On the same | floor are also the office of the matron, her dispensary and linen room. The 1 dining room is also located on this floor | and is a spacious apartment from which a serving room opens out, con- nected with the rear staircase. There 1 is also a lift for the use of these rooms l The remainder of the first floor is de- voted to the female emergency ward with adjoining toilets and baths.
 On the second floor of the adminis- tration building is a large children's ward with nurses rooms. Here also is located the operating room and ser vice room with convenient apartments for the instruments and for preparing them for use in the operating room. On ] the second flOoris also located the male | emergency ward with it's toilets and baths. The third floor is devoted to tho nurses quarters.
 The wings are to be connected with the main or administration building by 1 so-called sun corridors" so arranged as to allow the removal of the glass sides in summer time, and their use in place of verandas.
 The south wing, which will be the one built at the same time as the main | building, has the ward for female con- | sumptives on the first floor, with rooms for the nurses and admirable toilets and | baths. There is also in connection with this ward a linen room. On the second f1oor will be located the ward for male consumptives, with the usual accesso- ries of toilets, baths and linen room and quarters for the nurses. Spacious verandas will extend across the front | of this wing on both the first and sec Ond floors for the use of the patients in mild weather. There is also separate staircase in this wing for the use of the patients. From the main wing on the south side extend another wing con- taining one large ward on each floor On the first floor of the second wing is located the ward for females afflicted | with chronic diseases, and on the sec ond floor is the ward for male patients similarly afflicted. Both of these wards open out into large solarium or sun room. The toilets for the use of pa- tients treated in these wards are in an isolated stack, and connected with the wards by a closed passage with a door at either end. Everything in the stack is arranged on the latest sanitary plan with complete ventilation.
 In the rear of the administration building is an annex which will contain the engines, boilers and other machin- cry for heating, lighting and ventilating the main buildings. The basement of the main building contains the kitchen servants dining room, the autopsy chamber and the morgue. Here also are the engineers quarters, the laundry room and service room Tor the wards.
 The hospital will have, when com pleted a capacity of fifty beds. The buildings will be admirably located up on the spacious grounds of the Masonic home at Wallirgford. The location is an ideal one for hospital, upon rising ground, very healthful, with fine pros pect and sufficiently removed from the center of the town.