Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-19
CAVEN SUGGESTS PLANS FOR NEW
 PEST HOUSE
At Direction of Council Mayor Has Architect Draw Sketch, Structure to Be Built Along Scientific Lines.

If the plans which will be drawn up
 by Architect Hurst, according to the
 suggestions. made by Dr. Cayen. are accepted by the board of supervisors
 on behalf of the county and the city council on behalf of the city. the War
 ren district will be able to boast Of having a place wherein those unfor-
 tunate enough to be stricken by con tagious disease can be taken care of in e proper manner.
 The matter of building a new pest house was first brought up by Mayor Cayen at the last meeting of the city
 council. when he stated that he had made a trip of inspection to the struc- ture now used for the purpose, and i found it in a most dilapidated and un- l healthy condition, and earnestly rec l commended the construction of a new one at once. The council endorsed l the suggestion of the mayor unsnt- i mously, and it was suggested that the ] county be asked to cooperate with the | city in the matter. There was reason 1 to believe that the board of supervisors
 would recognize the justice of the matter, and Dr. Caven was asked to l take the matter up with an architect. and have plans drawn along scientific 1 and sanitary lines.
 The mayor took the matter up with Hurst yesterday. and suggested that a structure either of brick, stone or cement blocks be erected, with. iron | doors and iron shutters on the win
 dows. to prevent ignorant people from 1 entering the place when unoccupied, and stealing the contents, at the risk
 of catching a ioathsome disease. He suggested that there be two large l wards-one for women and one for 1 men-as we'll as a couple of smaller l rooms for the use of nurses or or pa- | tients desiring to have a private apart nent. Two fumigating rooms, one leading into a bathroom, where the cured person could leave his or her infected clothing, and then enter an
 antiseptic bath; leading from the bathroom another fumigating room. where fumigated clothing can be put on. There will also be an exit from the second fuuigating room to the street. Resides these apartments, there will be a kitchen and a dining room. The structure will accommodate twenty persons. When seen about the matter last evening Dr. Caven said:
 ! ''Ia suggesting to MT. Hurst what thought would be a scientific and san itarv arrangement for a detention hos pital. I bore in mind that we have not got an unlimited supply of money at our disposal for the erection of such l q structure. and for that reason only
 supcested what I thought com
 mon sense and the most elementary
 DriDcfples of medicine demanded.
 .Tn the matter of the wards, every
 one will admit that one for female pa
 tients and one for male patients IS necessity. so that will undoubtedly pass without comment. In regard tc the two private rooms which suggest cd. I had several things in mind IT the first place it is necessary to have , nurses at the place when in use. ant . these quarters can be used by them | In the second place, we can never tel , when an epidemic is liable to breas out. and to isolate ones self at an! other place than the detention hosplta } would entail a heavy expense. Sup : nose YOU or I should be stricken witt : smallpox, and felt that we could no r afford to stand the heavy expense O , private isolation, we could go to tn 3 city's detention hospital and coul
 have q private room at moderate cost
 No one can tell where these disease
 are going to strike, and we had bette r be prepared, so think all will see tn 9 advisability of two private rooms. r ''In regard to the fumigating room this plan is only based on the mos e elementary principles of medicine, b' f cause if a person is allowed to wal f right out of an infected building, witt s out Immigration, into the city, we migh y as well do away with isolation.
 T Finally, I think that if we eret
 such a structure, which will not COS
 very much, people will think no nor
 of going there than of going to ho 2 pital, and we will not have rumors g loathsome diseases being hidden frol
 the authorities. I look upon this as 7 most important matter, and I beliey 3. the council and board of supervisor e viii be in hearty accord with tn
 plan"
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