The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-09-13

The finest veterinary hospital and
college buildings in the United States
are now nearing completion at tina
'owa State College at Ames. With
\ ir inner and outer courts they
will cover a block of ground about
400 feet square. They will cost when
completed S15O,0OO, and $4,000 more
will be spent in equipping them. They
will contain every facility for the
study of disease in every kind of live
stock and their laboratories will give
opportunity for Investigations that
have never before been possible in
Iowa or any other midwestern state.
There will be only two other veter-
mary schools and hospitals to COM
pare with this new structure. At the
state agricultural college Of Ohio q
fine 100000 building has recently
been completed and at the University
of Pennsylvania a new building is in
use, but neither one is as large as
Iowa's.
These new buildings and their
equipment, which are to be ready for
use late in December, will give Iowa
the very best modern facilities for
promoting the growing Of sound,
healthy live stock and fighting the
tuberculosis plague. They will fur
nish veterinary students every pos
sible means for the study of live
stock diseases and live stock surgery.
They will provide unequalled facili-
ties for hospital and clinical work.
They will furnish the best of facili-
ties and material for experimental
work. Especially will Iowa secure in
the new buildings modern facilities
for the study, investigation and con-
troll of dairy cattle diseases. some
thing in which Iowa has been delin-
auent in the past. The structures
were planned with a view to give
splendid service to Iowa's live stock
industry, and that is to be the pur-
pose of their maintenance.
The buildings are arranged in two
parallel lines, about 100 feet apart.
There will be three separate struc-
lures in the front line, the admins
tration building in the center and .
smaller building at each side OF it,
connected with it by a covered pass
ageway. The administration building
will be two stories high; all the 9TH
err structures are only one story above
the basement, save the hospital build
ing, which is two short stories high.
In the main building will be the gen.
eral offices, an assembly room, mu-
scum, library, faculty room and pri-
vate laboratory. The building at one
side will contain physiology and
pharmacy laboratories and class
rooms: at the other, pathological and
ARCHAEOLOGICAL laboratories and class
rooms.
In the hospital across the court
from the administration building will
be stalls for forty-fve large animals
and some twenty-eight smaller
animals, like dogs. There will be
large operating amphitheater, clinic
rooms for the free treatment of ami
mails of all kinds, smaller operating
room and a room for operations on
dogs. To the north Of the hospital
building will be smaller structure
for anatomy work, including dissec-
ton and post mortem work, and a
lecture room, fitted with modern
animal ambulance, surgeons Office,
dispensary, and other offices.
The operating room equipment will
be of the best and good enough to
rival similar equipment for human
beings. The room will be so finished
that it may be thoroughly cleaned,
and every operating room will be
equipped with the best sterilizing ap-
paratus and operating tables worked
by electricity.
"These new buildings and their
equipment will give Iowa farmers the
very best facilities for fighting dis
ease in their herds and droves," said
Dean c. H. STANCE, head of the vet
Urinary department. with our new
laboratories, we will be able to do
original work in the investigation Of
disease that has never before been
| possible in the west. We will be
able to render quicker and prompter
service to live stock growers and
protect them more thoroughly.
Furthermore, we will be able to turn
out veterinarians who are splendidly
equipped for their work. Our school
| ought to take rank with the best Ger
man schools.
''Iowa has long been the greatest
| of live stock states, with only very
meager equipment for the protection
of live stock from disease. Here
after Iowa will have veterinary facil-,
tiles that Fl. the greatness Of its live
stock interests"