New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-13
70 OPEN NEW HOSPITAL
Rockefeller Institute Provides
7oFree Beds for the, Public.
SPECIAL CASES RECEIVED
New Building Houses Complete
Plant for Observation, Care
and Comfort of Patient.

,,osnitsl. which is 10 be an inte-
-. ~ the Rockefeller Institute for
eT.,zi.s1 Research. will be opened on Mon
- -,or,,i,e The hospital was built not
- fer The sake Of adding seventy beds
-. toenftal resources of New York City.
-. IN ORDER that an intensive study OF
fen selected diseases might be made
-ne Rockefeller hospital viii have no
-,sh+ ror. does Il expect the right, 10 eN-
rsrfr7ent on patients The treatment and
IRE Of disease viii he the first considera-
-fo7 IN every case The advantage 10
science in this case will be derived from
.be unusual opportunity for observing ana
treating diseases.
BY the terms Of the foundation, no charge
viii ever be made for services rendered TO
patients by the hospital. whether -or naedl-
"a attendance drugs. nursing. board or
116rfrr Cases viii be taken simply be-
,.ayss they fan within class Of diseases
.-5i-h AZ . 1i,ar time. Z has been decided
- +-aa- in This hospital Every physician
g v-o-l- in this institution must give his
sr-ire time 10 the hospital TO the exclusion
Of all private practice
Tho diseases selected for admission al the
beginning are irfantile paralysis (anterior
7,oiio-,zelf-fsl disease Of disturbed metal b
olis-n. pneumonia and heart disease, the
last rzo being SO widely prevalent that they
oause an alarming increase in the death
rate InfantiIe paralysis. though numerl-
cauv less important. has made terrible raw
AGES in its ,ur5relks n the last sew years
The new hospital lies just south Of the
Medical Research Building, al Avenue 4
and East s6th street. Il has eight floors
N2
Easements The nurses home. isolated
wards and night nurses quarters. with
recreation roof three stories above ground.
are placed between the hospital and the
Research Building The wards are on the
Avenue a end and on the east end. over
looking the East River and Blackwells
Island. Every ward has a screened open
air piazza 20 which wheel beds may De
rolled
The latest and most approved construc-
ton for sanitation has been used IN the
hospital The question Of cost has been
overlooked. apparently. IN the effort 70 OBJ
tain scientific efficiency and 10 bring 10 the
aid OF the resident physician, the inferno,
chemist and bacteriologist the product Of
modern science. Hand in hand with this
have gone the consideration for the CON-
Fort Of the patient and d recognition Of the
value OF cheerful surroundings IL The Jreat-
Enen- Of disease
The medical staff will consist al the out
SET q the director. DR.. Rufus L Cole, for
rne-ly Of The Johns Hopkins University
and Hospital: the resident physician, Dr,
e.. c. Robinson. and four internes, Drs.
Draper swift, Marks and Peabody Every
interne VIII be a college and medical school
graduate and must have completed the
ordinary period Of hospital service All the
nurses VIII be graduates. The sUpeTintend-
eut OF the hospital viii be Miss Nancy
Elliott. formerly Of the Johns Hopkins
Hospital
Patients suffering from the diseases Sc
lecred for treatment viii be admitted 10 the
hospital OF examination by the admitting
physicians on hand afler Thursday, october
- al o'clock IN the morning