New-York tribune., 1903-03-15

PLANS FOR COMPREHENSIVE SANATORIUM IN HIGH
LANDS OF ORANGE COUNTY.

on each sice Of the large recreation hall The
two ravilions Immediately adjacent to the CEN
trail recreation hall consist of separate rooms
with rooms divided by plastered walls with
toilet and bathrooms at the northern end and
a semi-circuiar glass solarium at the southern
extremity. Each room will have large windows,
which when open at night will permit free
circulation Of air. The other six pavilions will
be Of the same pattern except that they will
have open wards on each floor. Thus there will
be sleeping accommodations for 256 patients
under the slate roofs Of these pavilions.
BY means Of connecting corridor the pa
tients will have access from pavilion to
another. to the central recreation hall with its
glass DOME which will be used in the daytime
as a great solarium, and to the central building
to the rear Of the recreation building. where
the dining rooms will he situated. It has thus
been planned to set aside the pavilions on one
who will have access to their dining the
second floor of the central building without
meeting the men, who will pass from their sepa-
rate paviltons to the dining room on the first
floor In the central building. also, there will
he kitchen, a bakery and butcher shop in
the basement, and on the upper floors the
nurses dining room and the rooms for the
of nurses and physicians in their work in the
wards Power. light and heat will no furnished
n
between the administration building and the
central dining hall, anG the chimney Of the fur
naces is to be treated in the same colonial style
of architecture which will characterize the rest
of the buildings. On either side Of the power
house there will be isolation wards for cases OF
Conta gious diseases.
Apart from the houses is the camp Of tents.
Their exact arrangement has not yet been de-
termined, although the general plan which has
appealed most strongly to the Health Commits
sioner is for a sort of town of tented houses,
each containing two patients, and ranged along
intersecting streets Several schemes have
been suggested by the Charity Organization
committee According TO the tents to
he thrty-five feet apart, covering thirty-f1ve
acres and numbering many as one hundred
and twenty. They will be ranged about quad
rangles in the centre of which will he gardens
which the stronger patients will be able to cultl-
yate In central site there will he solarium
and recreation hall, and along the intersecting
streets al comma nding positions there will be
guardhouses for the orderlies in charge. Each
tent will contain cots for two PATIENTS
The tents will not I've of the frail material or
construction characteristic of those for the out
ings of summer sportsncn. They will be on
mortar and stone foundations, covered with
wooden floors. The thick canvas will he sup
ported and held in place by strong wooden
frame work. and in the cold of winter a stove
in the doorway will temper the atmosphere
within.
Only the stronger cases will have accommo-
dations in the tents. where they will be able to
care to a great degree for their own needs In
another part of the farm it has been planned 10
have gardens where vegetables, fruit and cereals
NAV be raised and here those whose constitu-
tions have regained their strength may work
and to a degree make some return for their
maintenance. Work will also be found for those
women who are capable Of performing 1t.
telephone from the central building will place
the tent community in close communication
with the houses.
Various estimates of the cost Of the farm have
been made by the Charity Organization COM
rnttee for different degrees Of equipment. With
1o tents and two paviIions the cost is estimated
at S219ON0 four pavilions. $2IS,COO. and the
eight pavilions, $3.50. .ON0. The first equipment
would care for 2SS people. the second for $50
and the third for 40.