The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-24
PIANN|NGA new HOSPITAL
PRESENTATION SISTERS OF ABER-
DEEM, s. d., 70 ERECT A
NEW STRUCTURE
PLANS HAVE BEEN DRAWN
Call for the Most Perfect Institu-
tiOn of the Kind to Be Found
in south DakOta-Ques-
tiOn OF Funds.

Special Correspondence of the Globe
ABERDEEN, S. D., March 22-Mother
Mary Joseph has just received the COM
pleted plans and specifications for the new
ST Lukes hospital building which the
Presentation Sisters will build in this city,
and they show that it will be the most
complete and perfectly equipped institu-
ton of the kind in the state. The building
will be 81 by 81 feet in size, three stories
and basement, and will be constructed of
stone and pressed brick. The basement
will be about two-thirds above ground,
and will contain the kitchen, pantry.
Storeroom, laundry, drying room, sewing
room, janitor'S quarters, closets and
steam-heating plant. The first floor will
contain the entrance vestibule, which
opens from a veranda. a reception room,
Office and eight chambers for the use of
patients. The first floor will have Veran-
das on three sides of the building, the
west, or front. and on the north and
south sides. The second floor will have
a reception room opening on a balcony,
surgical and medical wards and seven
chambers. The third or top floor Will con-
tain an operating room lighted from two
sides and above, opening off which there
will be a physicians room, equipped with
bath, lavatory, etc There will also be
a steriiizing room, an etherizing room,
supply room and chambers, and the whole
floor will be fitted especially for the best
Of modern surgery.
The whole building will be equipped
with approved ventilating shafts, every
floor being connected in such manner as
to secure the best of ventilation and
plenty OF the purest air An elevator ca
pable of carrying a load of 1000 pounds or
more will run from the basement to the
top floor, and large dumb waiter viii
convey meals or other necessaries for the
IL I-;4a faa
Each room will be equipped with electric
bells, and speaking tubes will connect the
various parts of the institution with the
superintendent office and other rooms.
Besides the rooms and equipments men
toned, each floor has drug room, serv-
ing room, bath room, closets, lavatories,
etc, and each chamber has a closet of its
own. while the corridors have closets
for linen, etc. Not an inch of space Is
wasted in the building in any place, and
1t is believed that for the ground space
to be covered the hospital will be the
most perfect in its appointments to be
found anywhere. Just when the work on
the hospital will begin Mother Joseph
was unable to inform a representative
of the G o e. The foundation stones
are all on the ground and the ey&avating
can be started early, but the plans. hav-
ing just been completed, Mother Jo2eph
invites contractors to call and sec the
plans and figure on the work She hopes
that the work may be pushed along rapid-
~ when it is begun. The hospital will be
q credit to Aberdeen when 1t is completed
While looking mainly to the question Of
utility architectural beauty has not been
overlooked. and the building will be
very handsome one.
The question of funds for the construc-
ton of the hospital is one not entirely
settled and Mother Joseph says that to
complete the building she will have to.
depend much upon the generosity of the
people of Aberdeen and of friends else
where She doubts not that the money
will be forthcoming, as people appreciate
the need Of the institution, but it will take
effort to get it together.