The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-13
FINE HOSPITAL
NOW At L|HUE
Ladies and Gentlemen Donated
munificentIy to It-Good
Roads Scheme.

possessed of a hospital better eouinued
than those of fairly large-sized cities
on the mainland and is Independent
of Honolulu for the treatment of those
of its residents who are unlucky
enough to need it.
4 The hospital has always been a model
of cleanliness and comfort to the pa
tients, but of course, more serious
cases had to be taken to Honolulu for
want of the appliances required in
modern surgery. When Dr. Putnam
took charge of the place, he put the
matter before the stockholders, who
agreed personally to help the institute
to a more satisfactory basis
The first improvement was the erec-
ton of a special building for a con-
sumptive ward. Careful plans were
prepared so as to have the arrange
ments of the cottage conform to the
utmost advanced ideas of. the treat
ment of patients suffering from tuber-
cu1osis. The whole ward is furnished
with windows all round, admitting an
unlimited supply of fresh mountain air.
The roof, crowned by cupola, is sup
piled with skyIights which admit adj
ditiona1 air and light. All the wood
work is finished off in a high grade
manner so as not to allow any dust or
germ to find a hiding place. The green
paint of the walls give the light a soft,
soothing effect. Bathroom, toilet and
Mushroom for the use of the inmates
of the ward only are situated in a
separate building connected with the
main cottage by a covered veranda.
feet above the ground and rests ON
concrete pillars, giving the highest de-
gree of security against dampness.
From the time the ward was planned
Mrs. Paul Isenberg and Mrs. Paula
volkmann had donated $500 each to-
ward it's erection, and when the final
cost was ascertained to be somewhere
around $4,000 the stockholders cheerful
ly dug up the balance themselves.
While good water was plentiful on
the place the doctor thought that for |
the purpose of modern surgery the old |
fashioned filtered water was an anon |
ally, so he set about securing a. com
pIete sterilizing plant as now approved /
of by careful surgeons. When the
goods arrived the cost was found to
amount to $500 or $500. G. N. Wilcox
heard of it and made the hospital a t
present of the whole plant.
The very latest addition to the equip
ment of the hospital is the x ray out
fit which has just been installed by I
the only expert in the Territory, Mr..
Hudson, formerly engineer with the
Hawaiian Electric Co. In a small
building situated far enough from the
hospital proper to deaden all noise
modern gasoline engine and a dynamo
with the regular switchboard has been
placed, while the x ray instruments
proper are located in one of the rooms
in the main building. With the aid
Of this wonderful invention a mighty
step has been taken toward easing the
conditions of the suffering ones. Not
only can the physician by it's aid as
certain whether an operation is neces-
sary, before hazarding the use of the
knife, but when the necessity once has
been settled upon. he can put his fin
ger directly on the proper spot with
,ut having to inf1ict larger wounds on
he patient than is absolutely neces-
;ary. The cost of this Improvement
climbs above the $1,000 mark and has
been footed by the Lihue Plantation
20
The operating room has for long
line been supplied with most Of the I
modern appliances, but the danger of 7
IN explosion when the inf1ammable I
,ther was used as an anesthetic at X
light has been another thing that has i
,reyed upon the peace of the doctors {
mind, and when the x ray with its S
.bundance Of electricity was in work $
ng order, he at once had his operating 2
DOM supplied with three high tension n
lights, of respectively 100, 125 and 125 2
andle powers, and adjustable so that
hey may be arranged over the patient p
n any position that is to the most t
dvantage for the operating surgeon. Il
The ambition of those at the head
( the hospital corporation is now to
ct so much money for endowment of !,
he institution that it will have a GER :
ain yearly income to cover the con-
iderable deficit which faces the direc- :,
prs every year. A great step towards ;,
he realization of this hope has been
AIKEN in that the two ladies, Mrs. Paul
senberg and Mrs. Paula Volkmann,
tho started the fund for the consump-
i've ward have come forward with en-
owments OF respectively $500 and
500 Mrs Clara Wendloth, another
aughter of the late Paul Isen berg, has
lso increased the endowment fund
18th $500