New Ulm review., 1912-06-26
Loretto Hospital Building Uadsl
Construction

room of the now Loretto hospital.
This will give New Uim . modem
hospital throughout and room
enough to care for the patients who
may wish to receive treatment here.
The new addition will have 63 rooms,
: . new and better lighted operating
room, electrically operated dumb
walters and elevators and all the
modern appliances which should be
found in hospital. The Loretto will
be patterned after or at least similar
70 the hospital at Fl. Wayne, Indiana,
except that it will be only three
stories high with basement and garret
Instead of five as 10 that at Fort
Wayne.
The St. Alexander hospital building
% 1t now stands has become obsolete,
and then, too, it has been outgrown
and the demand for more rooms has
been 90 great that new building was
. necessity. The old building con.
tains 60 rooms but on account of the
absence of modern elevators. etc.
many. of these rooms we're not practi-
cal for the use Of patients but have
.been used for the care of the aged who
have made their home here. The
heating facilities also we're not so
good as was desired and the old heat
ing plant will be supplsnted BY q
modern boiler and boiler room.
The Loretto hospital when finished
will make it possible to use all the
rooms of the three stories for patients
@ these three floors will be 30 sup
piled with electrically operated ele-
.vators and other modern fixtures %
TO make 1t practical and convenient
for the care of the sick. Architect E.
Brillmeyer of Milwaukee, Wis, made
the statement to some New Ulm par
ties few days ago We are told, that it
is an easy matter to arrange this
hospital in such way as to get the
sve%y best use OF I'LL the modern fur.
pishings 10 it will be separate build.
tne esand-can be arranged al on one
plan instead of being, as most hospi.
tai buildings are, simply additions to
the original structure which makes it
impossible to get the full benefit
modern methods. The New Hospital
being practically separate building
gives opportunity to reap the full
benefit from modern methods of fur
nishing. On this account he concluded
that the Loretto will prove more
pleasing and profitable than the Mayo
Bros hospital at Rochester.
q The new operating room will be
among the best in the state and lighted
as it will be by immense sky lights the
natural sunlight will food the entire
space. All new and modern equip
ment will be purchased for this room
- indeed will be the case with oil the
rooms In this building. Tho private
rooms and wards will be 20 furnished
and It 10 estimated that in addition 70
the approximately o65,000 which the
structure will cost that it will cost In
the nsighborhood Of 800 per room to
furnish the private wards besides the
cost OF furnishing the operating room
aud the oshsr nsoessary appliances
which will b required.
The total cost Of the building itself
cannot % yst be given dennitsly for
tho reason that the bids for heating,
plumbing, slsctrio wiring and elscsri-
cal appurtsnancss were opened only
last Friday and the contracts have
not bsso svardsd up to the time Of
this writing.
When the Loretto 10 finished this
fall the old building will thereafter be
known % tho ST. Alexander Home
and will b used only for the csre Of
the aged, except possibly that tho
ground floor may continue to be used
for wards, etc.
Since January, 1911, 169 patients
have been cared for at the ST. Alex
snder hospital. During this same
period total of Isl operations have
been performed with only one death
durinn tho rations Sixtoon n<,r.