The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-16
OUR NEW HOSPITAL IN PARIS.
Model Institution where Sick Americans
May Flint . Refuge.

Americans are hereafter to have Eooc
treatment IL they chance to fall i'll ir
Paris. The American Hospital will oper
there the first OF juno.
1T Is built and equipped for 1000, oot
francs, all paid says DR.. Edmund Gros
in the Chicago Record Herald. though
donations continue to be received by
Morgan. Harjes 4 Co.. the American
Express Company and Munroe 4 Co.
The names Of rich Americans on the
board should not discourage any n from
contributing. The hospital exists. but II
must be maintained. 1t must be con.
tinually added TO ii 1t lie to be what We
p~urpose--a permanent exposition OIL
American hygiene and healing in Europe,
John j. Harjes Is president. The
secretary is Henry Cachard OF the inter
national law firm Of Coudert Bros" and
the vice-president is John j. Hoh. d.
rector Of the Paris branch OF the Stand.
ard Oil Company.
Paris, with it's 80, 900 free beds, has nc
place for americans says DR.. Gros,
Not that they refuse us, but their dilapi-
dated old buildings, germ Allied, have an
amazing death rate that justifles the dread
OF even the Paris poor for the hospital.
This does not reflect on French doc
tors, who often make improvements
out OF their own pockets. The material
needs OF the crowding poor are great;
the Assistance Publique Is not all wise in
it's distributions. and IT is not the habit
AS for private pay hospitals Paris is
notoriosly the worst equipped capital
in this respect. The numerous n~.disons
de sonfe are surgical or nervous homes
run by private individuals. for gain.
They are transformed residences and
unfit for medical cases. Up TO the open.
ing OF the American Hospital We had
absolutely no place to take our typhoid
cases
The new institution will have two free
wards, one for 9 AMI one for women
At present they hold twenty-five beds,
On leaving q free ward cured q visitor may
leave behind whatever thank offering
he will, he It only q grateful letter or
The rest il in private rooms. It 10
said that the prices win not be high; Az
liberty to make q thank offering extra,
But It is not even limited at The prices
are the prices. -.
to tho new building. have ! seen such
6lcCLT1C anu bCNthS efia-S A"~
operating room hos what no Paris hos
pital p~osseeses.a smooth copper heating
wall on two sides, without radiators OF
crannies to accumulate germs.
This novel smooth copper heating
will be tried In some private ~ VIII
and the floor Of . special aseptc sub
stance the whole surface Of the room car
be flushed down with sseptic cleaning
for which purpose the doors are all lined
with sheet iron laid to obyiate al corners
THE roof garden, with its elevators
10 arranged 20 that every patient can be
wheeledin his own bed TO It BY the same
broad elevators they are wheeled In ambu-
lance rolling cots to the rooms assigned
them on arriving. Herr are NOVELTIES
American Improvement. from special
typhoid sheets TO germ proof ioe machines
Is being accepted. The resident phya.
clans will be brought from America,
The head nurse IL already appointed,
q most competent woman. many years
bend nurse at the Mount Sinai Hospital,
New York.