The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-04-27
The Shreveport sanitarium.

" equipped and most important Of
the city's institutions.
No human being is immune from
illness and suffering, if it comes not
in the spring and summer Of our day,
it will find us in the autumn.
It is the common heritage of all,
the penalty we pay for pleasures and
JOY, the balance required by Nature
in adjusting her weights.
There is no science that stands 80
high SIS that Of medicine, for by her
varied triumphs human reason and
life are preserved, and human suffer
ing alleviated.
The 10th Century has produced
nothing better for mankind than the
modern hospital, provided with all
the appliances known. to medical
science, and such conveniences and
comforts as no private home can pro-
cure, where the patient can go for
treatment, removed from all disturb
ing influences and remain under the
constant care of skilled physicians
and trained nurses.
Such institutions are costly affairs,
therefore can only be maintained in
cities of considerable size and means.
The Shreveport Sanitarium has
been in successful operation about
four months, its success is an assured
fact, thepatienta coming from all over
the South for medical treatment, and
to have performed, difficult and in
tricate operations. The building is
splendidly fitted with everything to
be found in any first class hospital in
the United States, while no expense
has been spared to secure in the oper-
sting room all the best and latest
surgical devices and instruments in
use either in Europe or our own
country.
The Matron's room, library, pre-
scription department, dining room,
Resident Physicians Office, ETC., are
situated on the first floor. Beneath is
a cellar containing furnace for heat
ing in winter, and furnishing cold air
in summer; through the same pipes a
fan driven by an electric motor dis
tributes the heated air in winter, and
the cold air in summer, by this means
the temperature Of the whole build
ing can be regulated to any degree
suited to the season.
Every floor in the building is laid
double, is noiseless, oiled and painted
with liquid granite, while the plaster
ed walls are hard finished and paint
cd with porcelite. No detail has been
neglected that will tend to health and
safety.
The most thorough ventilation is
effected, every door throughout the
whole building being provided with
transoms to open and close at will.
The wide hall on the first floor is
reached by double door. from side
street, where if necessary patients
driven to the hospital can be carried
in on stretchers, placed on the ward
carriage at the entrance, and wheeled
on noiseless pneumatic tires to the
hydraulic elevator, and thus be car
ried without change to their rooms
above. By these devices q wounded
or very il patient suffers no discom-
fort, being moved on noiseless wheels.
r"The second floor Of the building ia
devoted to rooms for private patients,
male and female. These rooms are
models of extreme neatness and gen
nine comfort, having among other
conveniences, electrical enunciators
attached to movable cords, that are
placed on the patients beds, and they
can ring call without moving any.
thing save their hands. For those
unable to rise such q convenience is q
genuine blessing. Another conven'
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