The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-11

TxIE buildings for the Hospita
for Incurables at Kaimuki wer
practically completed yesterda,
and plans for the opening viii
be made at meeting of th'
directors to be held soon. The grounds
which are extensive. are to be laid out
as d park this morning. Commissioner
wtay Taylor of the Department of Ag-
riculture is to do the work, assisted by
Head Gardener Mcintyre of Moanalua
and Forester Haughs. The plants are
10 De furnished by the government. and
no pains will be spared to make the
hospital grounds conform with the
beauty OF the buildings.
The executive building is in the CEN
.sHer Of the large tract. It is a two-story
4structure, with two suites OF rooms on
The lower floor. These are to be for the
use of the superintendent and the mat
ron., Here also is the reception room,
the operating room. and a room for
special treatment. Upstairs in the ex-
ecutiye building are six rooms to be
used by the nurses, who may accom-
parry private patients.
ing are two separate wards. one to be
used solely by consumptives and one
by those having other diseases of a
chronic nature. Ten beds are placed
in each.
On either side of these wards are two
further buildings with six private
rooms Ia each; these are for the ac-
commodation of private patients. Extra
large rooms are provided for female
patients, though no especial ward has
been built because of the small number
of women who apply for treatment.
Opposite this row of buildings, which
rooms for patients, and separate ones
for the nurses and members of the
medical staff. On the lower side in
natural depression it is planned to erect
further buildings for the use of the
help. On the other side are the barns,
carriage house, wash house and laun-
dry
The hospital is to be fitted with new
furniture throughout; none of that now
in use at the Victoria hospital is to be
taken
There are now 16 patients at the Vic
toria hospital, who win be moved to
the new hospital as soon as 1t is ready.
Altogether about so patients can be
accommodated in the new buildings.
The totL cost of the construction was
81. 500.
Request was made of wray Taylor
for plants, trees. etc, for the beautify-
ing of the grounds and he, with the
hearty approval of Governor Dole, has
offered to render every assistance in
his power
This morning Commissioner Taylor,
with Forester Haughs and Landscape
Gardener Mcintyre, who laid out the
beautiful grounds about the Damon
place at Moanalua, will go out to Kali
1nul<i and lay out the tract about the
hospital
Or. A. n. Sinclair will be the first
Superintendent of the new hospital.
There is now some discussion as to the
name by which il shall be known,
-.Leahi Hospital for Incurables" hay-
ing been suggested. There is some op- |
position to the name "Incurable," as
not being applicable to any disease. |
there having been remedies for nearly /
everything discovered within the past
few decades.
The endowment fund for the mainte- |
nance of the hospital now amounts TO
$50 coo. and before it is opened the men
interested hope to make it an even
hundred Thousand dollars The hos
pitsl will probably be dedicated August