The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-07-24
WILL BE ERECTED ON WYOMING
AVENUE AND FIRST STREET.
COST FIFTY THOUSAND
Modern Structure 10 be Erected Ac-
cording to Most Scientific Princl-
pies Of Hospital Construction
Growth Of the Johnson Hospital.

Plans are being prepared for a new
general hospital to be erected on the
corner OF Wyoming avenue and First
venue in the west, side addition.
It is expected that Link & Hare,
architects, who are drawing the plans.
will have them s%ufaciently completed
before August ! to permit advertising
for bids On the construction work.
One Of the physicians interested, said
yesterday that he expected the new
hospital would be ready for occupancy
this fall. y
The plans call for 9 brick structure
covering a plot Of ground 17Ox150. It
will be three stories in height and.
modern throughout. The most scien-
ftitic theories Of hospital construction
will be'embodied in the building and.
everything will be done to make it as
germ proof as possible. There will
be no square corners in rooms, no
panels In doors, no b%aseboards or pam
els projecting, where the germs can
~congregate. Instead Of stairways, In
clines will be used to go from one
floor to another and it will be posi-
BILE to wheel a patient from one point
to another Of the hospital.
Fine Operating Room. +
It is the intention to have one Of
the finest operating rooms In the
northwest. It will be situated on the
second floor and will be two stories
in height. Il will be lined with white
marble and will be equipped with all
the necessary scientific requirements
in performing operations. Another
feature planned for the hospital will
be a summing room, where GONZALES
cent patients may sit In the sunlight,
not exposed to the cold atmosphere.
The kitchen will be arranged accord
ing to specially designed plans and
equipped sothat food for patients can
be scientifically prepared under the
OF physicians.
The first floor Of the building VIII
contain the reception rooms, the Of
fee and the fever patients rooms.
The second floor will be devoted To-
the o%bstreticals department, the surgi-
cal case rooms and the operating,
rooms. On the third foor will be-
rooms for the patients not furnished
with rooms on the other floors. There
will be IS rooms In All.
All outside Rooms.
The structure will rs so arranged
every room will be an. outside
room and so that an hktditon can be
erected at any time, It being the in
tention to enlarge the structure az
the needs Of the community warrant.
The new structure willsbe undenom-
national. The decision to erect the
hospital has resulted through the
success Of the JohhSon hospital,
which Ii situated opposite the z. MI
G. A. building and of which DR.. w. HI
Johnson is the attending physician
and proprietor. DR.. johnson came
here about one year ago from Mat
loon, Wis, where he was surgeon in
Of one Of the largest hospitals
n the state and the only one In the
where Nation 10 situated.
Before going to Nation he was as
70 the Mayo Brothers. sur
geons. At their hospital In Rochester.
~
About six months ago he started
Imal hospital in . building on North
rMentysifth street and Fourth avenue
north. Recently he moved the institu-
lion to Z large building opposite the
z. n. G. A.. where It is now situated.
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