The Wilmington daily Republican., 1902-03-20
della WARE
HOSPITAL.

The annual meeting OF the Della
ware Hospital corporation is In ses
, sion this afternoon. President Thigh
man johnson in his report says:
/ Tie most important event which
has occurred since the last report, has
been the opening OF the new hospital
building, which took place on. Noyen-
/ bcr %, 1901. -.
/; The work was commenced in Au-
gust, 1900, and delays incidental to
building operations prevented in ear
-7ier completion; the building was
thrown open to the inspection Of the
'pttbiic on Friday and Saturday. No.
vember % and %, and the universal
opinion was. that the hospital was
. admirably fitted for this work, and
that the money had been used most
adyantageously and wisely expend.
ed.
The total cost of the building and
furnishings is approximately $40, ,9os.
-; list Of the donations and sub.
scriptions to the building fund will
be seen in tho treasurer's report, a
Temporary loan has been necessarily
made for $4,000 to pay all out stand
Ing bills; this loan will be reduced as
rapidly as funds for that purpose arc
received.
Permit me to briefly call your at
tcntim to the admirable arrange
ments of the new building. The sick
and injured brought TO the hospital
are admitted at the northern entrance
Ofthe ground floor, where all details
connected with the patients are i'm.
n,etliately recorded.
I, Patients who are to remain in the
hospital for treatment are transferred
from tho receiving room to the bath
room and otherwise put in proper
condition before being taken to the
main wards
Should an operation be required,
after the same preliminaries, as far
rs possible, the patient Is brought by
the elevator to the operating rooms
which are on the second floor. On
the ground floor are the boiler
room, locker room Tor patients cloth
ing, both room, drug room, receiving
ward, doctors parlols, orderly's room
and dental and dispensary rooms, also
light and airy cellars. Tie opcrat-
ing rooms are furnished through the
generosity of our treasurer,
Henry G. Jones, at cost Of 81 600;
they consist OF a series of rooms and
arrangements to facilitate modern
Surgical purposes, which arc not sur
passed any where, and this is the COM
ment Of many physicians who have
seen them.
First is the eitherizing room, where
the patient is etherized before the
operation; next comes the operating
room, which has a white tiled floor
and glazed tile walls andmarblc trim
mings about the windows and doors;
electric lights are arranged in the
ceiling and hand electric lights as
sisa in operations: large sky lights
and windows give ample light in day
lime; doors open into The physicians
toilet room, which is also TILED; here
the water faucets and flush outlets
eve operated by foot pedals, so that
p6ee->..ms can be received from the
S0lled hands, other doors lead to the
bterlizing room, also tiled in which
IRE installed complete hot and cold
water sterllizer, a gift Of kind friends
also steriIizer for dressings, beyond
Is the instrument room, in which one
of the cases is Il gift from u friend.
: AS one enters the front door from
fourteenth street, the Office is on the
right and the reception room OH the
leil: the latter has been furnished as
n Apemorial to the late DR.. Chandler
iby Nj. and Mrs. Sisler:rrom this room
\ staircase leads to the rooms for pri-
vale patients.
Passing along the hall. we come to
the main surgical wards, on one side
Is the free ward, and on the other the
pay ward: on the west side Of the
wing is the diet kitchen, recovery
ward, bath and toilet rooms and wo-
mems medical and surgery ward and
= convalescent parlor: bath and toilet
rooms: the corridor leading to the old
building, now the nurses home is a
delightful parlor.
0There are sixteen private rooms
on the third aud fourth floors; uioe
of the se and the copvalesceuti par
lor have been furnished BY friends
''whose names will be seen in the
treasurer's report. The cost OF
board Tor these rooms varies from
90 TO $50 per week.
"During til. year the endowment
fund has been Increased from $685.
IT'S IS 10 $4S, 1915. by the legaclcs
Of IS. 600 from the estate OF Mrs.