The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-07-31

age OF cures. The palatial institution
being built for the city through the
beneYolence of the Dee family Is now
nearing completion and Will doubtless
be opened for service in the early
part of October Built at cost esti.
mated At 100000. the hospital will
be unsurpassed by any institution OF
it's Kind In the world There may be
larger hospitals and sanItariums, but
there Is none that Is more modern in
equipment, and indeed few built in a
more picturesque location.
Perhaps II Is the scenes that
stretch out from the wide windows OF
the new hospital that most particular
ly impress visitor. And these
scenes Of mountain and city. of nature
and man, perhaps linger longest In
the mind Here the student OF psyche.
therapeutics might stop to ponder. for
the same panorama that now attracts
the eye and fingers in the mind OF
the visitor Will also be viewed by the
patients so soon TO come to the iDstI-
tuition for succor. Surely such a
landscape as the patient may view
from the windows and sun porches
Will help drive back the shadows and
gloom which are his to fight. Beauty
can but encourage the ego which
makes for the insistence Of life: an
inquest ioned essential In the combat
ting of disease
No Danger Of Fire.
The hospital is situated on Twenty
fourth street, between Capital and
Harrison avenues. The site includes
three acres of land The building Is
brick. and will be az nearly fireproof
as a hospital can he made. There will
be no fire In the building for heating
purposes Heat and power Will be
supplied from smaller structure,
ballt also of brick and standing nearly
"A hundred yards from the hospital
proper Little work has been done as
yet on the grounds surrounding the
institution as this improvement can
walt until next spring, when the
grounds will be sodded and otherwise
beautiflcd.
The main building will have four
floors, the three upper ones for the
use OF patients and the basement for
kitchens. sleeping quarters for the
help and other service rooms. 1t Will
be possible, should the increase In pa
tientS demand It, to accommodate
some inmates on this floor.
eliminating Noise.
The staircase, reaching from the
ground 10 the top floor, is built not
within the building, but In small ad-
dition to the main part OF the struc-
turc on the east side. Being parti-
toned OF in this way eliminates any
noise which might be caused by per-
sons climbing up and down the steps,
The elimination OF noise is being con-
sidered an important feature by the
builders.
The second floor will be called the
mixed" floor that is, there Will be
no division OF patients because OF sex.
The third floor will be exclusively de-
voted to female patients and the
fourth to male patients. This makes
II necessary that the second floor take
care OF both men and women. The
second flor VIII also be the receiving
department, and one might say. the
diagnosis department. for It will be
determined here whether the patient
is to lose a diseased appendix OF be
treated for typhoid fever. From this
nent quarters on either of the upper
floors.
a Floor for Women.
The third floor. devoted entirely TO
women. will have a ward large enough
To hold eight beds, another ward of
smaller proportions and individual
rooms. In respect to rooms, the
fourth floor Will be similar. but on
the north side are located the main
operating rooms. Here is room
where the patient viii be placed un-
der the influence of the anaeSthetic
and wheeled into an adjoining room.
where the operation will be per
formed. The operating room Is 10
have lead floor, a very modern fea'
ture, and one which Is being adopted
In some of the best operating hos
pitaIs in the world The lead dead
ems the sound of the surgeons moving
about II Is never slippery and il
affords poor refuge for bacillI
Adjoining the operating room will
he n sterilizlng room, where the In.
struments of the surgeons will be
kept and cleaned before and after op
erations.
There is to be second operating
room on the second floor. but the
fourth floor will be where most of tho
operations are performed. Both rooms
Will be floored with sheet lead and
will be equipped with every available
sanitary precaGtion.
Padded Floors.
The halls throughout the building
are wide and spacious with padded
floors, so that even the soft tread of
the nurses will not reach the sensitive
ear OF the patients.
An Otis automatic elevator Is to be
installed In the shaft now almost com
pleted. This elevator works without
an elevator boy. One needs only to
press button to bring the elevator ia
his service II will he one of the few
elevators OF the kind in the state oi
Utah
On each of the three upper floors
there are to bo verandas. both to the
south and north sides of the building
sun rooms. as they are called Here
the tired invalid or convalescent pa
tient may bask or bathe-if he pre-
fers TO call it bathlng-in the prophy
Tactic rays OF the sun Spirit may
have another source. but life. as II IS
known 10 the biologist, is only a by
product of solar radiation. All thC
energies OF life are sun-given Germ
life. however. cannot adjust itself tc
the direct action of the solar rays
and many disease germs die after {
short exposure to direct sunlight So