The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-12
OPEN FOR INSPECTION TODAY.
New Hospital of DR.. Lynch Association
Ready for Business.


Melrose hotel in West Brattleboro to
the Z. r. Lynch hospital have been
completed and the opening will be
held this afternoon from 2 until and
this evening from Z until 10, when it
is expected that large number Of
people will be present to examine the
Interior and see what work has been
done 10 make the whole well ap.
pointed hospital. Many special invita-
tions have been sent out and the dlrec-
tors of the hospital association are
anxious for everyone who is interested
to attend the opening. Guides will be
present to show visitors over the
building.
The whole building contains room for
80 patients. The rooms are mostly pri-
vate but there are two wards, one OF
four beds and one of three. On the
first floor is the reception room, office,
two wards, laboratory, kitchen, laundry
and dining room. On the second floor
are the private rooms, X-ray room, bath
room, and operating room. This is one
of the best appointed and most thor
oughly equipped room in the building
as regards sanitary arrangements and
all other things necessary in an operat-
ing room. Its size is l6 by 90 feet
The fittings were purchased from the
Richardson, Wright & company of Bos-
ton. The table is a plate of solid
glass, grooved to catch all liquids and
refuse from operations 1t may be
tipped to any angle by the simple
moving of a lever. The floor of the
! room is tiled and the walls are made
of polished cement. The basins are of
marble and may be filled or emptied by
the pressing of a foot lever. The room
also contains a steam sterilizing out
fit and the etherizing room is just out.
side in order that the patient may be
placed under the influence of the drug
before he sees the operating room. The
operating room is especially well light
ed by day with long windows extend
ing all along one side and at night by
electricity. The third floor contains all
private rooms and the fourth floor con-
tains eight rooms for the use of the
nurses.
The alterations on the building are
entirely completed. A wing has been
built on the north side of the house
and eight rooms added as well as an
extension on the back side containing
five rooms. A wheel truck is used to
convey patients from the ambulance to
the rooms and an elevator is to be put
in soon.
The staff of the hospital consists of
DR.. E. r. Lynch, who is head physi-
clan. and DR.. Fremont Hamilton of this
town. who does the etherizing. DR.
Maurice Richardson and DR.. Frank Har-
ris of Boston are on the consulting
staff Professor Burrell of Harvard
college, who occupies the chair OF
gynecology, is also on the consulting
staff. Ten nurses, two laundresses,
cook. a ianitor and a second girl are
also employed.
It was decided early in the spring
to move the hospital from the quarters
Oh Grove street on account of the lack
of room. In the old place the nurses
were obliged to room outside of the
hospital and more applications were re-
ceived from patients than could be ac-
commodated. Since the hospital was
opened in May, 1905, 250 patients have
been treated, nearly all for operations
and but one has died. That one was
Mrs. Fox of Hinsdale, N. H., who sus-
tained a compound fracture of the hip
in runaway accident on the Connect.
icut river bridge last fall. She was 81
years old at the time of the accident
and died from the shock. In the old
hospital only surgical cases were treat
Ped but at the new location confinement
cases will also be received but no con-
tagious diseases will be treated. The
new hospital will be run under the
name of the E. R. Lynch Hospital as.
sociation, of which John NJ. Legs OF
Guilford is president, Dr. b. Il. Lynch,
superintendent and manager, and Mrs.
William Legs of New York city, Sec
1etary and treasurer.