The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-04-20
FOR The
HOSPITAL.
Trustees Adopt the Designs
and Specifications Of q
New 100000 Build
ing.
DESCRIPTION OF TIE EDlFlcE
It Will Fave Every Appli-
ance Used in Modern Hos
pitfalls Including Fine
Operating Rooms.
DESCRIPTION OF THE EDlFlCE

The City Hospital Trustees met last
night in the office of the Finance Board
and looked over and adopted plans and
specifications for the new 100000 city
hospital. There were present President
Edward M. Watson, Trustees Andrew
J. Phelan and Henry G. Vogel and
Architect Frederick c. Long, who pre-
pared the plans and specifications. Ac-
cording to the description furnished by
w. G. Hewitt Began, assistant to Mr.
Long. the hospital will consist of an
administration building and ward build
ing. The administration buildingg will
be Of brick with limestone trimmings
The trim and base will be quartered
golden oak with heavy caps over all
window and door openings, with fire.
places in all the rooms. In the basement
Of this building will be located the boiler
| room and laundry wash room for both
hospital and. patients wash. There will
be cold storage vault and crematory
connected by subterranean passages to
the boiler room. The crematory is for
burning up all refuse and matter accum-
ulating from operations. The first story
will contain the warden's office, mat
ron's office, waiting seamstress', bed
and dining rooms. 1t will contain
grand staircase, freproof, of iron and
stone. The main halls and corridors Of
the first floor will be wainscoted to the
height of four feet in initial ton Mexican
onyx and the floor will be tiled. Ad-
joining the seamstress' room will be
large closets for the storage of linen
after leaving the seamstress. A large
passenger elevator will run from the
basement to the top floor. On the sec
ond floor of the administration building
will be located the doctors apartments,
dormitories, matron's apartments and
warden's apartments, consisting of five
rooms, necessary bath and toilets, iron
staircase, with stone treads Of the same
design as those on the first foor.3 The
warden's dining and serving room will
adjoin his apartments.
The third floor will be entirely devoted
to dormitories for the help.
On the fourth floor will be located the
kitchen, scullery, bakery, bread room,
helps dining room for male and female,
cold storage closets, refrigerator, neces-
sary toilets. etc.
In the ward buildings the basement
will consist of female venereal ward, in
sane ward, laundry and drying room
toilets, main diet kitchen; male venereal
ward, male insane ward, toilets, special
rooms, nurses Office, apothecary shop.
surgical dressing rooms, eye ear and
throat operating room, children's medical
genealogical, dental and DARK rooms,
doctors office, general waiting room am
bulanee delivery, tubbing and emergency
rooms There will be two iron stairways
extending from the basement to the third
story. Under the ambulance delivery
room will be storage rooms for patients
clothing, machinery for elevators and an
iron staircase leading up to basement.
The first story of the ward building win
contain two female medical wards,
special rooms, nurses Office closets for
storage Of linen and supplies diet kitchen
female toilet and ward for special diseas-
es, two male medical wards, special
rooms, ward for special diseases, nurses
Office, male toilet and closets for storage
Of linen and two freproof staircases.
The second floor will contain two male
surgical wards, special dressing room,
nurses Office, diet kitchen, special rooms,
ward for special diseases, male toilet;
maternity. children's and special wards;
female toilet, delivery room, closets for
storage Of linen, and iron FIRE proof stair
case. The third floor will contain two
female surgical wards, surgical dressing
rooms, female toilet, necessary supply
and service rooms, recovery room, stsri-
lizing room, nurses and doctors room,
meteorological laboratory, toilet for doc
tors and nurses, Roengent Ray room,
supply closets for storage of linen, etc.
Over each operating room will be a
ten-foot dome Light. The ceilings Of the
operating rooms will be nineteen feet
high and the ceilings Of The wards thir-
teen feet and three inches. Tare is d
patients elevator extending from the