New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-31
GIFT BY ROCKEFELLER
INSTITUTE BENEFICI4RY.
To ProUide $500, 900 for Hospital as
Research Laboratory.

At a meeting of the trustees of the Rockefeller
Institute, held at the institute yesterday after
noon letter from John D Rockefeller jr was
read. in which he announced that his father
would provide for the purchase of land and for
the erection and equipment of suitable hospital
buildings to be joined the present buildings Of
the institute at 66th street and Avenue A. what
ever amount might be necessary up to S5OoooO,
payments TO be made the work proceeds. Mr.
Rockefelers letter, addressed to DR.. L. E. Holt,
secretary of the institute. follows:
20 Broadway, New York;
May 26, 1908.
Dear Mr. Holt: Understanding that in the
Judgment of your board a hospital building is
desirable in order TO facilitate the work of
search for which The institute was founded, my
father will provide, for the purchase of land
and the erection and equipment OF a suitable
hospital building. whatever amount may be
necessary up to a total of five hundred thousand
dollars $500. .oo0), payments to be made as the
work progresses
Ny father thus enlarges the scope and pos
sibilities of the institute in grateful recogni-
ton Of the services of DR.. Simon Flexner. as
director, rendered in those orderly and progress
sive scientific Investigations, which, sanctioned
and encouraged by your board. and aided by his
learned associates and assistants. led him at
length to the discovery of cure for epidemic
cerebro-spinal meningitis
JOHN D ROCKEFELLER, Jr.
The board of directors of the institute has had
the subject of a hospital under consideration
developing plans with York & Sawyer. archi
tects of No. 156 Fifth avenue. AS planned. the
hospital building will be small, compared
with many of the existing hospitals, but its
object Will be more the highly specialized treat
ment of individual cases of various diseases.
with view ascertaining and developing new
and better methods of curing them, than the
treatment Of a large number of patients.
The building, as designed will be equipped for
the diagnosis and treatment of disease. and Will
contain elaborate provisions for the fresh air
treatment Of patients by balconies upon which
the beds can be rolled directly from the wards.
and by roof gardens where the patients can be
accommodated in all kinds of weather.
In addition there will be special departments of
hydro -therapy and electrical treatment. Private
rooms as we'll as public wards have been
planned for and a special diet kitchen for the
preparation of diets in the latest sanitary and
scientific way will be a feature Of the new hos
pital.
As planned by the directors, the building will
be either seven or eight stories in height and
will accommodate about sixty patients at time
This gift brings the total of Mr.. Rockefeller's
beouests TO the institute up to about S4,Jco,er
DR.. Flexner said last night that it would
probably take two years for the building and
eouipment Of the hospital Though the letter
announcing the gift makes direct promise Of
an endowment for the institution, DR.. Flexner
said the presumption was that when COM
pleted. Mr.. Rockefeller would arrange for its
endowment in the same way as In the case OF
the Institute for Medical Research.
The hospital will be built on the bank Of the
Fast River just south of the institute The
work of construction will be begun this summer
Although having close connection with the 1nstl-
tute. the hospital will have a complete stan OF
physicians of lis own under its own director
~ Flexner continuing in his present office as
director Of the institute.