The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-06
NEEDED INSTITUTION
CONN., WORKING ON
COUNTY HOSPITAL PLANS.
PREPARING FOR NEW BUILDING
A Fine Hospital Structure to Be Con-
misunderstanding the Plans Of
the Excellent County hospital
at helena.

The county commissioners have been
engaged for the past two days in porting
over the plans and estimates for the new
county capital which they intend to
build during this year and next. They
have taken the work in hand in earnest,
and 1t has reached a point where tn.
contractors and builders of Butte are
asked to put in bids for the erection Of
the building.
Silver Bow county has needed a county
hospital for long time, and the county
commissioners are determined to give
the people first-class institution.
Twenty thousand dollars will be expend-
ed in the erection and equipment of it.
The commissioners yesterday and to-
day had the blue prints of the building
1t is intended to erect before them, and
also the list of estimates furnished by
the architect, and they devoted most of
both days to the business of familiariz-
ing themselves with the details of the
work which they have in hand.
The commissioners are awaiting thenn-
selves of the knowledge and experience
which the authorities of Lewis & Clarke
county have gained in the construction
and management of county hospital at
Helena. The county hospital at Helena
is a very fine one, and the commission
ers here Intend to pattern the building
to be built here after it in many par
ticulars.
The county hospital building will be
100 feet long and 40 feet deep. 1t will
contain two stories and a basement, and
will be made of pressed brick trimmed
with stone. It will be lighted with cleo
tricity and heated with steam. and will
possess every modern improvement. The
operating room will be up to date in
every particular, and will be provided
with every medical and surgical appii-
ance necessary to first-class hospital.
There will be several fine, big wards,
with comfortable, we'll ventilated rooms,
and every provision will be made for
the care and attendance of the patients.
Commissioners Clark, Mathews and
Farrell are determined that the hospital
shall be one that everybody in the
county will be proud Of.
In order to keep within the law, which
limits the expenditure of money for the
erection of hospital, by the commits
sioners. to $4,000 a year, the hospital
will be partly builded this year and fin
ished next year.
The commissioners hope to make the
excavation for the site and build the
basement, the walls and the roof this
year. The bids asked for now are for
contracts to cover this work.
Very few cities as large as Butte, and
counties so populous as Silver Bow, are
so lacking in public hospital facilities as
those. The county hospital now is
hardly worthy of the name at all. 1t
is deplorably inefficient and miserable
concern. Cases are continually brought
into the city and county jails that ought
to be taken direct to a public hospital,
but which cannot be taken there because
there are no facilities for handling them
Compared with Lewis & Clarke county,
this county is far the richer and ADLER
to build and maintain a county hospital
yet the county hospital at Helena is a
credit to the place, and Butte has no
public hospital worthy of the name.
The county commissioners will earn
the commentator of every resident Of
the county by the construction of this
much-needed institution. This Is pub
lie improvement that will be of great
service and value, and Messrs. Clark.
Farrell and Mathews are doing a piece
of good work in bringing it into exist
ence.