New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-21
NEW BABIES HOSPITAL.
PRIVATE VIEW OF THE UP TO DATE
SCIENTIFIC BUILDING YESTERDAY.


Isn't IT a beauty exclaimed Miss Mariana
Wheeler superintendent of the Babies Hospital of
the City of New-York, her eyes lovingly followed
the lines and angles OF the superb building
which yesterday afternoon was open for private
inspection to the donors and the medical profession
For ten years we've been looking forward to this
day The building cost $4,000 but II is all paid for
except about $1,000 and John D. Rockefeller. who
gave $4,000 TO help build il, has promised TO give
$4,000 more if the ladies' board raise the other
$1,000 before December !. I think we shall do it,
About three hundred people visited the new hos
Uita which 'the site OF the old building, at
Fifty-dftt-st and LeXngton-ave., and were re-
ceiyed by Mrs. J. J. Knox president Of the ladies'
hoard: Mrs. G. r. Sheldon. Mrs. Robert Mel. Bull
Mrs ". *. Draper Mrs Ira Barrow and Mrs E
IT, Van Ingeu. It not formal opening-this
Will come next month; but one floor is fully
equipped with eighteen children IN residence, and
the delighted visitors saw everythng-from garnet
10 cellar
Besides being a splendid eight story granite and
brick building, freproof and sanitary, the new
Babies Hospital is remarkable in having been the
pioneer Of its sort. when it begun, in this coun-
try. and in possessing many novel and ingenious
.coutrivances. The POSTGRADUATE Hospital has a
babies ward but there is hospital in New-York
run exclusively for babies except the one in ques
ton. San Francisco. Detroit Brooklyn Boston,
Newark and Montreal have followed NETWORKS
example in the erection Of babies hospitals
our work. said Miss Wheeler, us largely edu-
cative. The care Of babies IS progressive science.
are all the time working on problems connected
with the infants diet and care
Throughout the hospital has floors OF COM
position and white enamelled furniture. and is as
attractive the eye the scientific and philan-
thropic senses. a soarum, sun chamber with
glass roof occupies the greater part of the seventh
story and here when the hospital is fully fur
nished, viii stand steamer chairs built expressly
for tiny children. and baby carriages win be rolled
up and down Around the walls are low broad
divaus, where. when the leather cushions are in
position, the cribs with their occupants will be
placed TO enjoy the sunlight. Adjoining is the
laboratory, where under the direction of DR..
Martha Walstein. blood examinations are made.
Here. too, the milk supply OF the hospital is
nualyzed three times week for cream and for
purity
a MARVEL TO THE LAYMAN
Twenty-four beds for children under one year
occupy the floor below and in these two wards
some Of the most interesting of the hospital meth
DDS may be observed. The cribs little oblong
baskets made Of iron strips braided together. about
30 inches long and "A wide. They in a high
frame. At head and foot handles, so that when
the baby is to be moved all the nurse has to do is
to pick up the basket with the baby in it and de-
post the two wherever she sees ht pole stretches
across the top over which cloth be thrown
protect the occupant Of the crib from draughts In
their up TO dateness' and scientific detail the
glass tables on casters, which the nurse places at
her right hand for the toilet articles, and the mar
DIE screen behind which she and the baby sit to
tub which is elevated to the height Of an ordinary
table from the floor, that she need break her
back in leaning over This is an innovation. So is
the blanket warming closet OF glass where blan-
kes warmed for the children with low vitality,
and where a complete suit Of clothes can be
We never put a cold garment on a patient
said Miss Wheeler. Some Of the children are at
such a low vital ebb that We have trouble in rails
Ing their temperature to 80 degrees with hot
water bottles and warm blankets. On the hottest
bottles We take little shirt and line it with cot
ton batting; this goes a flannel jacket, and
and haths|and then they aren't enough!
We have incubator-fn fact we don't quite APP
child has lived the life Of the world, TO put IL In
an incubator usually means death; P,sn9ugh we
nave 4 one-month-old baby, she added, VINO
might 90 into incubator with advantage. Nurse
Nurse Vent 10 a crib where tiny shape showed
through the bedclothes like a muffin under dolly
ana tenderly turned back the shees 70 STOW a hea9
the size OF a chrysauthemum ana a clnched hst
almost as big Kittens paw. The baby was
when She came to US on November 49," said
nurse. proudly she weighed pounds II ounces
nIe then she has ganeo SO they rolled the baby
up in her batting again and pulled her blue hannel
jacket over her chest and tucked her apology Tor
hand under the coverlet and left her where they
found heT-in Dreamand- -, -.
Zee. for children under three require but little
surgery In the lower ward. where the oIdest Shn-
Wheeer's The frame on which the blanket rests
folded blankets used thr9ugnoui i stSao 90. Sa
mattressee-cau be raised lowered WITHIN the
bedstead or can be elevated at the ioot TOT an
Operation, At viii This is mods
Mrs G. r. sheldon has furnished one entire
MOOT Containing pneHm0nla oy1s = beautifiy fur.
Insheo IN pink, blue and green 1o[ piisate "a
he living Ihe 1oo l1we Of tSe staff reception and
sminatibn rooms and the out-patent department. depart n
toned every bod in the hospital is apsoIuteIy
free mother has only to present r nea SICK SICK
enid at the door If It is not suitet1hs H0 " 'O
taR1Ous disease have II acc6pleo-