The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-06
WORK OF GOOD WOMEN
THE UNITED CHARITIES HOS
 PETAL AT SELMA.
City InArmary Has Been Completely Reftted and Placed on Up-to- Date Basis-New Church at
 Uniontown Consecrated.
Advertiser Bureau,

-. Advertiser Bureau, Selma, Nov. 5, 1901. The City Infirmary, which has proven one of the gT Teatest of blessings to Central Alabama. and which has been partly closed for the past three or four months,
 was re-opened yesterday. This hospital
 has been under the care of the United
 Charities. and under the watchful care
 of that noble band of women the City
 Snfirmary has been built up from a very
 small beginning until it Is now one of
 the best furnished, most carefully equip
 ped hospitals in the State.
 The building, handsome two-story
 brick struckure, is located in the western
 suburbs of the city and was constructed
 especially for a hospital, the rooms being light and airy and the whole being so constructed as to admit of the most per- feet ventilation.
 The main building has been thoroughly overhauled and renovated. Your repre- sentative had the pleasure of going through the building yesterday and was
 struck with the neat, fresh appearance
 of everything. The work of overhauling the building was done under the direct supervision of Mrs. E. H. Hobbs. the president of the United Charities and
 Miss Lillian V. Campbell. the very capa- ble young woman who will have charge of the building. Every one of the eight rooms and two wards have been tkal- somined and painted afresh. The Hnea
 on the beds is neat and white and the rooms are tastily furnished with little
 white iron bedsteads and other furniture, all made especially for hospitals of 1his character. VI
 Miss Campbell and her assistants are all graduates of medical and surgical schools,
 and the ladies of the United Charities have been most fortunate in securing the services of Miss Campbell at the head of this institution. She is an expert in her profession and many of those who have been nursed back to health and happi- ness under her gentle care can testify to her nobleness of purpose in consecrating her brain and talents to suffering humani- ty.
 All of the private rooms are on the second floor and are heated with open grates. The building is lighted with electricity and all the rooms have elec- tric call bells in them. At the west end of the building up stairs a sun parlor is being built, where all of the patients can sit the coldest days in the winter and feel the warm rays of the sun as they pour through the glass that surrounds this parlor. which is about twenty-five feet square. The glass pannels that surround this sun paror will be so arranged that they will slide back and forth and in the summer time patients can sit in this | parlor and get the benefit of the summer | breeZes and at the same time have a | splendid view of the sunsets.
 Nearly every physician in the city is back of Miss Campbell in making the | hospital a success.
 The new operating room has not been yet. but will be soon. It will be brilliantly lighted with electricity. for that have to be performed at night, and for daylight operations there are three large double windows at the ends and sides and a skylight overhead.
 The ladies of the United Charities have been working for years to furnish the building and they are to be congra tulated m the progress they have made. Miss Campbell informed your representative hat this hospital is so perfectly equipped hat 1t will compare favorably with any hat she has ever visited in the cities, vben it's size is taken into consideration.
 The operating room will have "a !. floor f white tiling and the same will line the yalls for a distance of six feet from the oor on all sides. giving the room clean. ttractive appearance. The noble association of wemen under he name of United Charities deserves the incere thanks of this community for the ntiring efforts int building, and equip | ing his inflrmary. and now that 1t Is nore efficiently equipped than it has l yer been. they ought to be encouraged ot only by words, but with money. when ( to keep this building open for $ he relief of suffering humanity.