The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-12-09

during concrete. The thought
| of fire bankrupts the imagination
but there hang the significant %
extinguishers which could wres-
tie with any blaze that could
reasonably be expected to start
there. Going on the nurses din
ing room, a place that looks like
a modern hotel. will be seen and
the serving room, a balliwick
laid off for those who are on SEN
try all the time. is next met.
The maternity room. well
lighted, with noiseless chairs and
lights for gas or electricity, a
rolling screene and sterilizers
plentiful, were seen by the visi-
itors and a place known as the
general sitting room was then
viewed. The interesting baby
room, with attachable bed-bas-
kets and a private suit sor the
nurses, came among the never
ending number of divisions in
the buildings private rooms for
ladies. linen closets, the chill
dren's arcade and balcony, con-
structed so as to make impossi-
Bile their falling over. connect
the three-story building with the
charity wards. All of these fix
lures are of copper, the best pos
sible metal and have an undoubt-
ed quality of endurance and
stability. The two story builc-
ing has duplicate rooms and what
lis seen below is also viewed
above. The general ward room
with six beds, equipped with all
the furniture rolling chairs and
screens that the best ones have.
show upon what scale the insti-
tuition can take care of those net
able TO provide for themselves
and there is a convalescent'.
dining room.
WILL HAVE DIETIcIAN.
i This hospital is to have a die
tician, one person whose sole
care is the kind of food that the
patients shall be entitled to use.
She is not to be a nurse and wi
nave no other duties than those
pertinent to the canvaleacent's
or the more i'll patients require
, as to diet. The dietician viii. be
, here soon and just as Mr.. Watts
| would not purchase any but III,
; best fixtures for his hospital, 81
Z did he act in the choice Of people
and his head of this new depart
0 ment will have all necessary ere
: dentials.
( THE OPERATING ROOM.
!. The ward in which the operat
g ions are done is one among tn
! last in the excursion through tn
: hospital. There is perhaps on
: of the most interesting and com
is plete room Of them all. Equip
IS ped with a great sterilizer j
which all instruments are dippe
v preparatory to use, there are In
o dividual sterilizeas all about it
" that an in trument dropped G
> anywise infected may be imms
" diately dropped into those basi
re- nearer and used again. The t;
n. bles work easily and are adapte
ID to all kinds of positions. Adoir
II ing or nearby is the anaestheti
a room and not far away the X-rs
~ which can be made a dungeon
IN darkness with a simple touch
+. the fixtures in the room.
he Not s more up-to-date featul
is found than the big mattre
d. disinfector something very ne
he here. The instrument partak
al greatly of the nature Of a gre
he boiler and bed and its clothes a
ri. pat into it. When thorough
steamed and all germs put to
to finish, in the superabundance
ey care, the clothes are not aga
in exposed to the room throuI
to which they were taken, but a
ne carried through another. Al
In. this big mattress machine, h
ali one end in the pure room VII
he the other is in the infected or
on There is the gildless mortua