The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-17
THE GROUND IS BROKEN
st. James Hospital to Have a
Beautiful Annex.
THE PLANS ARE PERFECT
or Late the Resources of the Hospital
Have Zen Inadequate and the New
Annex Will Accommodate
Many Patients.

One of the most important building
Improvements begun in Butte his year
was started yesterday when ground
was broken for the new annex to st.
James hospital. which has been under
contemplation for SINE time. For
months past the services of the hos
pital rave been inadequate to accom-
modate the number of patients who
have sought admittance, and Sister
Louise. the sister superior, has been
iaboring with the mother house to Sc
cure permission to erect an addition
that would enable the hospital to ac-
commodate its constantly increasing
business. Success at length crowned
her efforts n a few weeks ago il was
announced the addition would be
built.
Architects Lin and Donovan have
been engaged on the plans for some
time. They have now been approved
and work has at last started on the
building. When completed st. James
hospital Will be one of the institutions
Butte people will point to with pride,
as the new annex Is to be one of the
most modern and complete hospital
buildings in all the country.
The building will be erected on In
vacant lot north of the present build
ms wan n AipAhiAkC VI % IteI OH ludnO
street, and will be 104 feet deep. The
style of architecture will be on the
renaissance order. The building will
be three stories high with a basement.
and will be built of pressed brick with
cut stone trimmings.
The basement will contain the Y ray
room, in which will be installed the
new y ray apparatus recently pur-
chased for the examination of fine frac-
lures and locating foreign bodies in the
flesh. Then there will be the bakery.
laundry, work room and store rooms.
On the ground floor will be located one
or the principal features OF the new
structure. 1t will be as fine an operat-
ing room as any hospital contains. Ii
Will be large and will have a doned
ceiling, affording overhead lighting.
and Will be furnished after the most
modern and approved ideas with an eye
TO perfect sanitation. The floor and
wainscotings will be of marble and the
room will be so adapted with regard
10 heating that any temperature de-
sired may be had at almost a moments
notice and maintained without nuctua-
ton. Connected with the operating
room will be a patients retiring room
accessible from the outside so that in
case of emergency, patients NAV be
delivered from the ambulance direct to
h operating room without the slight
est delay. On this floor will also he
located the chapel. with affairs and
sacrlsters. The chapel will seat 100
persons. Then there will be the sisters
retiring room and four large wards also
on this floor.
The second floor will have 10 private
patients rooms and one large general
ward. The third floor will contain the
sisters domitory and six large pa
rents rooms. All the rooms for the
sick will be large n airy and as
cheerful as they can be made.
the annex VIII be entirely separate
from the old building. but will be con
nected with II by a hall running from
one building to the other on each floor.
me interior of the building will be
handsomely finished, and the finish
ings of the patients rooms and wards
VIII be OF such a nature as TO allow
of their being washed wheneyer neces-
sary. In fact there will be every mod
ern convenience. including an electric
elevator large enough to accommodate
a patient on a stretcher. which will de-
liver a patient to any foor with the
least possible Inconvenience and great
est expedition. each floor will be pro-
vided with toilet and bath rooms.
The building will be equipped with a
combined heating and ventilating sys-
tenn. A boiler house will be erected
outside the hospital entirely, which will
furnish steam for both the new and old
buildings, both OF which will be
equipped with the thermostatic system
of regulating temperature.
When the new building is completed
the rooms In the old building now de.
voted to the use of the sisters. viii he
converted into patients rooms and
wards, and this, with the new portion.
viii give the hospital additional faciI-
tiles for the accommodation of about
100 more patients. which, IL is thought
will be adequate to the needs for sew
eral years to come.
The improvement will cost approxi-
mately $4,000. Work will be pushed as
rapidly as possible. and IL is hoped the
building will be ready for
by Thanksgiving time.