Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-04
MYSTERIES FIRST STEP
 TOWARDS A HOSPITAL
Medical Society," After Annual Meeting, Invited pr. John Champlin to Inspect Finely Equipped Santarium- Death of John A. Moore-James Blake Loses Left Eye.

The annual meeting and banquet of the Westerly Medical association was held in the Dixon house Thursday evening and these officers were elect ed: President, Dr. Harold Kenyon; vice president, Dr. s. B. Webster; sec retary, Dr. w. A. Hil1ard: treasurer, Dr. c. Grant Service; censor, Dr. R. B. Smith.
 At the conclusion of the banquet Dr. John Champ1in sprung a surprise on his brother physicians and invited them to inspect the hospital he had erected. The building is a two and a half story structure in a slightly loca- ton. All the interior woodwork is painted white with double coats of white enamel and the sanitarium is as near perfection as possible.
 On the first floor is a large recep- tion hal1 reception parlor, a private room, dining room and kitchen. The floors are double deadened and all the rooms are heated by steam and light mings are of oxidized brass. the best of workmanship predominating throughout the building.
 On the second floor is a pink room, a light pink room, light yellow room and an operating room. In each of the rooms is telephone, so arranged that patients in bed can have com nunicatIon either by local or long dis tance service direct. Every room is light, as there are at least two win dows in each, and the building is so located that every room is visited by the suns rays.
 The operating room is absolutely dust proof. The floor is of waterproof cement and the side walls and ceiling are heavily enameled in white. All the corners in the walls are rounded with the floor. In this room, in ad- dition to the windows, there is sky light of prism glass. so that there is ample light for day operation. At
 Ii l. aI,, delier of four electric lights, with holophone globes, arranged to best ad- vantage over the operating table. There is also a telephone call in this room, so that an operating surgeon could communicate or be communicate ed with and not be required to leave the room. In addition there is pro vision for furnishing electricity If re- qITired in the treatment. The rooms on the first floor are nine feet and six inches in height and on the second floor eight feet and six inches. Later two rooms will be located on the third floor.
 Dr. Champlin believes that the open ing of this private hospital will event ually lead up to a public hospital. This new institution will prove of great ad- vantage and be appreciated by the people and physicians In Providence at present there are eight from West erly in private rooms, not wards, in the hospitals of that city, and because there is no facility for proper treat ment in their home town.
 Dr. Champlin has named the institu- ton the Westerly Sanitarium, and leased it at a nominal rental to Mrs. Ladora Keator, an experienced nurse, who has been in Mrs. OlSten's hospital in New York. She will have full charge of the sanitarium, except the operating room, over which Dr. Cham plin retains supervision.
 Any patient who desires can go to AI,-x =%rr%s s.1, T 4 %@ member of the Westerly Medical so- ciety for the treatment of patients, and any reputable surgeon from elsewhere is free to treat patients there. While pr. Champlin furnishes the building, the guneral furnishing of the sanitari- um is in charge of Mrs. Keator, and all ready people of Westerly have express ed a desire to help supply the furnish ings, and this without solicitation.
 Dr. John w. Keefe of Providence, the leading surgeon of Rhode Island, Dr. Rogers, eye specialist, Dr. James H. Davenport, gynaecologfcal special iSt, and Dr. PeckhaTn, Orthepedic sur geon and electric specialist, also of Providence and connected with the Rhode Island hospital, have notified Dr. Chsmplin tFat they will give the pro- ducts of their first three operations to aid in furnishing the operating room Local surgeons will be expected to give 10 per cent. of their operating fees to a fund to maintain the operating room ana 10 nave II alWayS Iurnlsned With the very best of equipment and to keep right up to date in every detail.
 Dr. Champlin states that the West erly sanitarium belongs to the people, for the use of any patient or doctor, and that he claims no more privileges in the institution than any other phy- sician of Westerly.
 John A. Moore, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Moore, who died in Westerly within the past three years, died of tuberculosis Thursday evening at the farmhouse of William H Opie at Chase Hill, where he has haen boarding for several month7 Mr. Moore was born in New Lo1Aon 35 years ago and came to Westerly with his parents when young. He learned the stonecutting trade, but soon there after passed a successful examination