The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-10-24

remodeled and used as a home for
the nurses, doctors and servants
connected with the institution. The
new hospital plant includes a mower
house and laundry. The building
will have a frontage Of about Ito
feet, and will be, four stories in
height, including the tower and
basement; ItWill be equipped with
the most improved heating, lighting
anu plumbing. The power for the
lighting and laundry, as we'll as the
steam. for the heating, will be fur
n1shed by two boilers, one Of so, and
the other rs horse power. The hos
pital people expect to install an ar.
tthclal Ice and cold storage plant
In the basement 81 the new build
ing.
Solid Concrete Building.
The new building is to be OF con-
crete, built solid More than 40 car
loads of Lewisburg limestone, as
we'll as an immense amount Of SAND
and cement have been used in it's
construction. The building is to be
rooted with red tiles.
The power house and laundry will
be equipped with the best modern
machinery for their respective pur-
poses. The equipment Of the hos
pltak will be all new and modern,
ana the best that can be secured.
The operating room will be I'M
usually large and we'll lighted, the
floor being of concrete, and the walls
Of white thing. The electrical room
Will be equipped with a large X-ray
outfit as we'll as wall plates and
other appliances for the use Of cleo
tr1city in the treatment of disease.
The estimated cost Of the new build.
ing will be $4,000.
y, The Hospital Staff.
The hospital has at present twelve
nurses, a superintendent, surgeon
in-charge, and resident physician.
The superintendent is Miss A.
/ Cousins Mckay. She has had pre-
vious experience at night superin-
tendent Of Randalls Island Hospital
~
clan is DR.. II. G.. Foushee, of Licking
ton, KY. The present surgeon-in-
charge IS DR.. J. e. Cannaday. He
has been at the hospital for over
five years, but leaves the first Of
November for an European trip and
soon after the first of the year he
takes charge Of Reynolds Memorial
Hospital near Wheeling.
First Growth Was Slow.
For many years the growth Of the
hospital was very slow, and the
number Of patients treated small. At
times even, the institution seemed
to be on retrograde movement, the
number Of patients for one year be.
ing actually less than that Of the
preceding year; but during the past
five years the institution has grown
almost by leaps and bounds. the
number Of patients per year increas-
ing from 220 to $40, an increase Of
about 300 per cent. Now, practic-
ally every coal mining corporation
in the Kanawha and New River. field
contributes to the. support OF the
institution, and practically all Of the
doctors in the same region send
their patients there Formerly most
Of the cases treated in the hospital
we're medical cases or accident
cases, but during the past three or
four years a very large amount of
surgery has been done in the insti-
tuition, with results second to nd
other hospital in the state. The frat
gunshot perforation Of the stomach
and inteStines to be successfully
treated in the Kanawha valley, made
recovery here. This patient, a col
ored boy having fourteen separate
and distinct Derforations of the
stomach and intestines from a bullet
wound; also the first case Of goitre
to be $urgical1y, treated by removal
Of goitre was done here. Many
years ago when Or. ]. G. Wysor,
now OF Clifton Forge, lived at Mont