The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-24
THOROUGHLY UP TO DATE
It Has Been in Operation Now About
| Three Months.
DR.. JULIAN M. BAKER SUPERINTENDENT
Efficient Staff of Physicians and Nurses. En-
dowment Fund Enables Patients Unable
TO Pay Charges to Receive Treat
men! al the Sani.arium.
(staff Correspondence

(StaH Correspondence.)
Tarboro, N. c., Nov 23-There has been
| for long time the need in Tarboro for
just such an up-to-date institution as the
| subject of this sketch
Five years ago the physicians of Tar
boro knowing the necessity and advan-
tages of a Sanitarium, for Tarboro made
| the proposition to the county that they
would do the county medical work for five
| years and draw no fees but let them ac-
cumulate for that period at the expir-
alton of that time the amount of 81, 500
was to there credit Miss Minerva
Pittman, daughter of the late DR.. N. j.
Pittman of Tarboro, made $4,000 dona-
ton to this fund. A friend in New York
added $4,000. A suitable conveniently
located lot was bought, and large hand
some two story brick building with a
basement has been erected and named in
honor of DR.. Pittman.
The Sanitarium has been in operation
about three months The work done has
been not only in every respect very sat
isfactory to those who have charge of it,
but to every patient that has been treat
ed or had an operation performed, up
to this time. About sixty five patients
have been treated and no institution of
the kind in the State is better equipped,
more conveniently arranged or has a
| more excellent staff of physicians and
nurses in charge. Julian NJ Baker, NJ. d..
is the superintendent w. j. Thigpen, M.
D., is house physician, Miss L. Virginia
Gray is superintendent nurse, Miss Louise
Vankirk, of New York, matron. There are
four other thoroughly trained nurses The
resident staff of physicians are Drs. j. H.
Baker L. L. station, H. T. Bass, Julian
NJ. Baker, T. p. Wynn, S. M. Harrell, W.
]. Thigpen, e. r. Hart. The names of all
the above gentlemen are not only in the
highest degree a guarantee to all who
may need the treatment of this institu-
tion that they will RECEIVE the benefit OF
first class medical skill in sickness, but
also there where an operation is necesa-
| ~ they will receive the best of surgical
/ treatment. 3'@
| In the basement there are various COM
partments, with the latest improved fur
| niture, apparatus and all necessary equip
| ment. First is the kitchen and dining
| room for the nurses and employees, then
! the laundry, and a bath ROOM and on this
| floor there is a Special room for treating
| all kinds of diseases by the hot air oven
| process up to the temperature of $50 de-
| grees. Turkish baths are also given in
| this room. Adjoining it is the laboratory
| for meteorological and microscopical
work, in this basement is a fine heating
| plant, having attached heat regulator,
so arranged that any room throughout
1 L I.a,v
! ture regulated as may be desired.
| Along the front of the building runs
| a broad varanda, at the right end of
| which is the reception rooms. On the
| left is the superintendent office, adjcin-
| ing which is the superintendent nurses
room, on the left side of the main hall
I is the operating room, which has the best
water conveniences, operating tables
| both stationary and movable. Here also
are glass cases containing all kinds Of
| instruments of the best make. Adjoining
| the operating room are rooms where af-
| ter an operation has been performed the
| patient is carried to rest and recover from
| the effect before being taken to his room.
Beside the wards there are fifteen
rooms for patients all furnished with
| asepIc furniture, the floors of the halls
| are covered with the best rubber mating.
| The interior building is lighted by cleo
| trc lights Electric bells are conven-
| iently arranged for the patient to ring
| whenever a nurse or any attention is
| needed The sanitarium is so divided
| that the department for colored people Is
| entirely separate and distinct from the
wards and private rooms set apart for
| use by white patients.
| There is an endowment fund for the
| maintenance of patients who are, not able
| to pay the charges. Worthy persons
needing treatment in this institution and
| not having the means to defray the hos
! pital expenses are taken in here and re-
| ceive the full benefit of an operation or
| treatment, and, upon leaving the insti-
| tuition we'll and cured, statement OF the
hospital charges is given to them, which
! they can pay in instalments after leaving.
! This is for hospital charges only, medl-
cal attendance being absolutely free.
| On the second floor over the milan en-
| trance is glass fronted sun parlor or
| promenade, where patients when con-
| valescent can be placed in comfortable
| chairs and enjoy the invigorating effects
| of a sun bath and at the same time be
| interested in viewing vehicles and pass
| ersby. Also, on this floor is test kitch-
| Ell, where food is prepared to test the
| appetite and condition OF the patient
| while improving from the effects of an
| operation or disease.
/ This is but a brief sketch of the thor
| ough completeness and outfit of this san
| itarium, but it conveys at once to the
| reader the idea that it is up-to- date in
| every particular, and instead of patients
| seeking northern institutions of this kind,
! ] am prepared to guarantee that t1e staff
| OF thoroughly competent physicians who
| have charge Of the work in this santa
| rum can perform any kind of operation
| and give the patient as slSilfull medical
/ attention and nursing as they can get in
i larger cities, and at the same time avoid
/ the noise and hustle from the streets
| that usually penetrate the walls of such
! institutions in our great centres of trade.
One can see at once the economy of
patronizing home institution of this