The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-24
BIG HEALING
INSTITUTION
The Queens Hospital as
Modernized and
Enlarged.

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in Honolulu to visit than Queens Hos
pital, set as it is in pleasant wilder
ness of palms, through which murmur
the ever present mountain breeze.
| Few people in this city realize the
full Importance of the advantages OF
this splendid institution. Patients OF
, means may have their own physicians
private rooms and all the comforts OF
home, to which is added the fine equip
ment of the hospital, which is not
equaled anywhere in the islands, and
all at a, very moderate cost. Then
there are wards for the reception of
INDECENT patients of all nationalities
where the best of care is given.
The hospital is divided into four sec
tions, containing in all 40 beds. There
is the Pauahi wing. the Bishop annex,
the brick wing and the original Queen
Hospital building.
From the latter structure, erected in
1859, to the splendid Pauahi wing, open
ed this year, stretches many decades of
ment
The old building is used today for
ward patients and contains four wards
with Al beds, downstairs. Upstairs are
three wards and 26 beds. There are
also dressing rooms on both floors.
The Bishop annex, built in 1892 con-
tains eight private rooms and one large
ward with sixteen beds. The ward is
used exclusively for Marine hospital
patients who are attended by Marine
hospital surgeon.
The brick wing is the second oldest
portion of the hospital buildings, hav-
ing been erected as long ago as 1879.
Here is to be found the first operating
room, that Honolulu ever had. 1t looks
strangely inadequate and out-of- date
now, compared with the wonderful
room devoted to operations in the Pa
uahi wing. In the late seventies, OPP
erations were occasionally performed
on the veranda of the brick wing. In
those days, however not as many oper-
ations We're performed in year as
take place in a month at the present
time
A tour of inspection through the Pa
uahi wing is a revelation of complete
ness and efficiency. This wing, only
recently opened, replaced wooden
building, erected in 1874.
1t possesses an operating room which
is declared by visiting doctors from
the mainland to be as well fitted as
any operating room to be found in the
best hospitals on the Coast. The room
is furnished by one of the largest
houses in New York. The collection OF
operating instruments alone represents,
many hundreds of dollars.
Then there is the anesthetizing
room, the steriIizing room, containing
three separate devices for sterilizing
instruments, water and dressings; the
nurses work-room, an operating room
for minor cases, and a doctors 1abora-
tory.
Fire extinguishers are found on every
floor.
The toilet is up-to-date in every par
ticular and is furnished with portable
bathtubs, and Eot and cold water, a
special hot water plant being maintain
ed on the premises.
A feature of the Pauahi wing is a
of private rooms in which pa
tients may be attended by their own
receiving, at the same time
all the advantages of the hospital The
rates for these rooms are from s.. so to
So SO per day, including board and
medicine. These rooms are tastefully
furnished and are fitted with electric
lights and electric bells Seclusion and
the best of care are the principal ad-
vantages offered by these rooms.
Below is the general ward, the rate
for which is $3.50 per day.
In this wing are the quarters of DR.
Sawyer, the resident physician, and DR..
West, the inferno. These quarters con-
sist of dining room and kitchen, the
latter equipped with a gas range
The three wards on the first floor of
this wing contain 80 beds.
Situated in the grounds are cottages
for the doctors and superintendent, and
the nurses home.
The wards of the hospital, particu-
larly those in the Pauahi wing, are light
and cheerful. and get all the breeze
that may be about There are broad
Verandas at the back and front and
from the top floor of the Pauahi wing
a remarkable view may be obtained
from Diamond Head to the Waianae
hills
superintendent Eckhardt, who has
been in large measure responsible for
the excellent condition of Queens Hos
pital today. has been connected with the