Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-11-25
HOT LAKE SEVEN YEARS AGO
AND HOT LAKE TODAY SHOWS
TRANSFORMATION
Sick From Middle West and East are
to be Seen in the Institutions
Lobby.

ium doubtless a campaign of rear
rangement and addition has been
started that will reach far into next
season and enlarge that great insti-
tuition sufficiently to care for the
constantly increasing business.
When it is considered what was at
Hot Lake seven years ago and what
is there today one can but wonder
at the marvellous transformation.
Seven years ago and whatetaoetao
Seven years ago the sanatorium
building would only accommodate
in manner fifty patients. There
was but one nurse who also acted i'll
the capacity of housekeepes. The
water for domestic purposes was
hauled in barrels on a sled. Grocery
and supplies were delivered to the
sanatorium in a spring wagon that
proved adequate for the demands of
transportation. A total number of
twelve employees constituted the
force at the lake. Laundry was ship
ped out to La Grande. There was
no telephone connection with the
outside world. The bath house woul
outside world. The bath house
would only take care of tento twelve
patients, while the doctors office
and treatment room was one and
the same. No steward no bookkeep-
er, no checking clerks, no bell boys,
In fact one man-the clerk-did it
all. A 15-horse gasoline engine
furnished electric current for the in
stitution, and in fact Hot Lake was
only small speck either on the
map or in the minds of the people.
But what is that institution to-
day? None its equal in the north
west and very few in the United
States. Today the building accom-
modates $50 patients with the most
modern apartments possible for the
skilled architects to build Twenty
two nurses are regularly emnloved
Water for domestic purposes is
brought to the institution in a priv
ate water plant, which consists of
cement reservoir of 10000 gal
Ions capacity. 1t is distributed over
the large building through mains
perfectly plumbed and scientificallv
arranged The electric current used
from the main power line amounts
to 125-horsepower each q hours.
1t Is interesting to know what an
important part the electricity per-
forms here. Besides being used for
lighting and for running the eleva-
tors, 1t does the cooking in the diet
kitchen, runs the machine shop and
wood working department, where all
institution furniture is manufac-
tured; runs the laundry, where each
week 10000 pieces of linen are
lamdered sweeps the floors and
rugs; peels the potatoes; grinds the
coffee; washes the dishes, and is ex-
tensiyely used in the electric mass
age department of the bath house
Where seven years ago the spring
wagon carried the groceries from La
Grande to Hot Lake now a com.
missory is established in the insti-
tuition that carries a stock OF SEQ
00o The sanatorium is one of the
largest carload shippers on the O.
r, 4 y, out side OF Portland, and at
the present time carload of caned
goods is being unloaded there
The office force which formerly
consisted Of the one clerk, now IN.
|cludes the day and night clerks. he'll
boys, hookkeepers, stenogranhers.
checking clerks and information
man, who Is always at the service Of
the guests
The doctors office, formerly COM
hlnod with the treatment room. now
consists Of suite of nine rooms.
Also there are laboratory. treatment
and N-ray rooms. The surgery room
Is porcelain lined hermetically seal.
led and cannot he surpassed nv any
other institution During the past
year over coo major operations have
been performed at the Hot Lake SAN.
atorlum
The merit Of this place hereto.
fore moro or less confined to the
northwest Is now reaching into the
middle and extreme eastern states.
and where the register formerly
showed people from nearby states
now can be seen many Of the prom.
nent people Of the east and middle
west-La Grande Evening Observer