The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-16
PLANS FOR PEST HOUSE
THEY ARE AGREED UPON BY MAY
 OR AND COMMITTEE.
The Institution ls to Consist of Five Buildings on Upper Wetumpka Road Two Miles From
 The City.


 The joint committee on Sanitation and Public Works of the City Coun- ell which met with Mayor Thomas H. Carr and City Engineer D. W. Ford yesterday morning in the ofice of the mayor accepted the plans drawn in the City Engineers ofice for the new buildings to comprise the Ether gency Hospital. on the upper Wetump- ka road two miles from town.
 The plans will be submitted to the City Council Monday night for accep- tance and as soon as they are accepted. as they probably will be. bids will be advertised for by the City Treasurer and the work on the new buildings will begin.
 The city will not construct the buildings of the new pest house. Con- tracts for the work will be awarded to the lowest bidder and the time limit of the contracts will be made as short as possible for the completion of the buildings as the sanitary department has been hampered considerably siuce the pest house was destroyed by fire some months ago.
 Mayor Carr was especially pleased with the plans and will probably com mend them to the Council by message to the Aldermen.
 The plans call for Sour new build ings. house for negro male patients like house for negro female patients, a house to be used as a kitchen and laundry and a large roomy house to be divided into two wards for white persons as house of detention. The present house on the site purchased by the city will be utilized for white male and female patients though 1t will bo completely renovated and improved The two hospital buildings for ne- groes will consist of four wards each and will be made as comfortable as possible. A guard house built of heavy timber and barred will be join- ed to the house for negro male prison CTS as 1t Is not an uncommon thing for smallpox patient to be taken from the county Jail or city prison and a place where their safe keeping may be guaranteed will a distinct improve ment over the old institution.
 The house of detention will be the greatest improvement in the new buildings over the old pest house. The two wards for white patients will be completely divided and separated by a hallway and will have in addi- ton ladiees parlor, gentleman's s sitting room. good sized dining room, an offlce for the attending physician and a dispensary for drugs and sup plies. This building will be probably 100 yards from any of the buildings where there are smallpox patients and there will be no danger of contagion.
 It has been decided to extend the water main of the city water works out the upper Wetumpka road and to the Emergency Hospital. Fire plugs will be placed on the grounds and in the buildings with hose attached ready for instant use in case of fire and 1t is probable that electric lights will also be added in the equipment of the new and modern buildings.
 The kitchen and laundry will be en- tirely separate though they will be un- der the same roof and the work in these places for the smallpox wards and the detention, patients will be strictly apart.
 If the proposed buildings are con. structed. the hospital will have room to accommodate from ninety to 105 persons though more could be accom- . modated in case of rush on the hos. pital. The accommodations for pa tients are divided in the following man: for white patients thirty; for negroes sixty; for suspects ten. There will be no detention house for ne- groes.
 If the proposed plans are accepted, when the buildings are built, Mont gomery will have in every respect a modern and up-to-date Emereency Hospital that will do credit to the city and will not be bugaboo to people who have smallpox or have been ex- posed to the disease.