The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-01
HARLEM'S MODEL HOSPITAL.
PLANS or THE NEW INSTITUTION
ON LEMON AVENUE.
Ground for Its Erection to he Broken This
Spring-It VIII Accommodate 40
Patients and VIII lie One Of the
Best.E;quipped Hospitals In the CITY.


Best.I;Quipped Hospitals In the CITY.
Plans have been accepted for the Harlem
Hospital which is to he put up on the un-
occupied block on the east side Of Lenox
avenue, between l3sth and 137th streets.
and ground will be broken for It's erection
in the spring. 1t will replace the present
Harlem Hospital, whose facilities are al
together inadequate to meet the demands
made upon them.
The new hospital will he one Of the
most thoroughly equipped institutions of its
kind in the city. 1t will he built with a
particular regard to improved sanitary
arrangements.
The main building will cost about
s?7jOOO 1t will accommodate l+0 patients
ard will have a house staff Of eight ply
siclans and surgeons and twenty -six nurses.
Tie present Harlem Hospital has room
for only thirty-eight beds and is two
story wooden structure, formerly used a. a
dwelling house.
The new building will be T-shaped.. Of
hsh' -colored brick. with stone trimmings,
and five stories high. II will have 'front.'
ag' Of 100 feet on Lenox avenue. That
part II the building will contain the six
ward pavilons, each OF which will be about
20 feet long and 30 feet wide and exposed
80 the sunlight on three sides.
The central part of the hospital which
is ~ be ~ feet wide, will divide the front
section into north and south wing and will
run back IFS feet. In il will he the offices
and quarters for the physicians and nurses.
There will be an entrance from Lenox
avenue. but the principal entrance will be
on l36h street.
The ground floor will be taken up entirely
10y the dispensary and the emergency wards.
The former will he in the south wing and
will be divided into several departments,
a department for cases requiring simply
medical treatment. for surgical cases, for
children's diseases and for genealogical
cases.
The emergency ward will be in the north
wing and the ambulanoes will come up to
it by a special driveway from I36th street
The administration offices will occupy the
first floor Of the central part Of the buliding,
in the rear.
The second floor will contain the male
medical and surgical wards, with operating
and dining rooms for the physicians and
nurses. Each male ward will accommo-
date twenty beds.
The female medical ward and the chill
dren's ward. each with a capacity Of twenty
patients, will be on the third floor The
muses. quarters will also he there.
The fourth floor will have the female
surgical ward for twenty patients and
the maternity ward for twelve. In con-
nection with the latter there will be four
or i've spscial rooms for septic CASES. The
physicians quarter and q clinical lAbora-
The nth 6oee frent win contAin the
operating theatre, which win b 80 feet
long and ~ feet wide. II will he lighted
by a northern dome-shaped window. 1t
will have . separate sterilizing room,
room for the accommodation OF the OPP
ments. one for the Rontsen ray appa-
ratus and others for use In etherizng and
reviving the patients.
The Kitchen will be In the rear on this
floor. but It will be cut OF completely from
the operating rooms. There will be, be-
sides, . separate diet kitchen and q dining
room connected with, each ward. The
for the patients. another for visitors and
third for freight.
The walls OF the rooms will all have a
hard cement finish and the corners will be
rounded SO that dust cannot gather In
them.
A power house. laundry. electric-light
plant. ambulance stable. morgue. isolation
wards and quarterr for the male help will
he built outside the hospital proper.
The new hospital will be under the con-
trol Of the board Of trustees Of Bellevue
and allied hospitals OF which DR.. John W.
Brannan IN president. The board has
superintended the drafting Of the plans,
consulted in regard to the arrangement
for the surgical theatre. II will probably
I've two years before the hospital is COM
peted