Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-03-03

Addition Completed. Including Oper-
sting Room, SteriIzer and Elevator.

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sting Room, SteriIIzer and Elevator.
Al = cost OF some $4,000, e two-stor,
annex, 30x36 feet. brick veneer, has beer
completed at the Randolph s~anatorium
an elevator installed and a modern steril
izing outfit added to the equipment. The
new part is now in use and the more con.
venient arrangement of the interior OF the
sanatorium, made possible by the in.
creased amount OF space, gives greater
comfort to the patients and greater facili.
ties in caring for them.
The old operating room ct the left of
the hall, as one enters the main building,
has been taken for the Office; while at the
right of the hall, the former office and the
large room back OF it have been given
over to the use Of the nurses. What was
the dining room in the main part ia o
a room for the domestic force, and the
kitchen has been converted into a handy
place in which the nurses prepare the
trays of food for the patients. A china
closet stands hers.
The first floor OF the addition is divided
into apartments for the head nurse, a din
ing room in the center and a kitchen in
the north md. There is a passageway
from the Office to the sitting room OF the
head nurse, which is connected by a wide
opening with a smaller chamber, and has
also q door into the dining room. The
big commodious kitchen is finished in
birch and at the east end OF it is a con-
veniently arranged pantry and big cold
storage room capable of holding a great
amount OF supplies and having an icebox
filled from the outside. A thick air-tight
door closes this store room. From the
pantry access is had to the refrigerator,
which stands outside the building.
On the second floor a case for surgical
supplies has q place in the ball leading to
the new operating room, which is very
much larger than the old one and well
lighted. In the south end is a large win
dow Of ground glass to subdue the rays OF
the sun, 10 the east is another window
and there is q skylight overhead. The
o is al In spotless white-white
walls, white enamel paint, white marble
tile floor and white furniture, the same that
has been in use some time. Connected
with the operating room is a dressing
room for the doctors with six lockers and
the sterilizing room, also in white.
The sterilizing apparatus, manVfac-
tured by the Kny-Scheerer company OF
New York, is one OF the best and cost
about $500. Water from a main OF the
village system is piped directly into the
filter between the hot and cold water
tanks and percolates into either as de-
sired. 1t is gratifying to know that an
alysis has established the fact Of Ran
dolph's water supply being so pure as to
be naturally in almost a sterilized condi-
tion, which makes it no u%nimportant fac
tor in helping the sick to health and in
keeping the healthy well. Under each
tank are oil lamps to bring the water to
the boiling point and at 10 pounds pres
sure a valve at the top of q tank is
thrown of and the water is kept ct that
point 80 minutes before it is drawn for
use. In one tank is a coil to cool the
boiled water to cold sterilized state. To
s~terilize the bandages they are placed in
a drum, which is surrounded by a water
jacket and has a door which locks air
tight. A lamp under the drum makes
the water in the jacket boil, and the
steam is turned into the drum for half an
hour; then it is turned of and dry heat
admitted, which in is minutes will take
the moisture all out of the cloth. The
surgical instruments are placed in a pan
having q perforated bottom and lowered
a covered receptacle containing water
to submerge them. Again by the
aid of lamps the water is made to boil
and at the end Of halt an hour the cover
Of the receptacle is raised by a pedal ar
rangement so that the hands do not touch
It, the pan of instruments is lifted out by
sterilized grippers and handed to a steril-
lied nurse, who takes them 10 the operat-
ing room. The whole process occupies
than an hour, while by the old way
he better part Of a day was required for
he work.
Between the main building and the ad-
iition, is the new elevator which runs
rom the ground to the third foor and is
enough to carry a cot bed and two
II three people besides. The shaft opens !
opposite the door of the operating room
nd into = small linen room between the :
wo wards on the third floor. On the .
floor the cage is entered from the ,
flee. The elevator, one OF the greatest :
leeds OF the saDatorium, represents an !
utlay OF about S4O0. 1t was purchased :
[ the Otis Elevator company in which
]ol. A. B.. Chandler is interested and was
or that reason obtained on reasonable !
On every floor of the building is :
good-sized bath room ventilated by an :
The ground floor Of the addi- :
ion is finished in birch except the pantry I
'hich is Of Eastwood, and the second !
tory is all OF Eastwood, finished on the /,
God in the balls. An excellent feature "
I the plan is the abundant closet room, q
much to be desired in a private house \
nd a great convenience in a hospital. :
The addition increasing the area to be
armed necessitsted an extension of the