The Washington times., 1913-10-25
NEW HOSPITAL TO
Be STARTED SOON
Institution for Women to 0c-
cupy Five Stories and
Basement.

Ground for the Columbia Hospital
for Women at Twenty-ffth street and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest viii be
broken in a few days. The hospital, II
Is said, will be one of the most modern
and improved structures OF its kind IN
this part of the country. The site will
be that Of the present. Columbia Hospi-
tai. set back about thirty feet from the
facade OF the present structure. The
present building will be razed as opera
tions are In course, but as the new
building Is to be erected In sections
the present building will be used while
building Is going on. The new building
will cost S30o, ,0O0
1t will contain five stories and base
ment, and will measure 2S4 feet In
length. facing Pennsylvania avenue, BY
liz feet deep. IL Will contain - beos
The present building accommodates lU4
beds.
Three units will compose the building.
the Administration building in the CEN
ter and the genealogical and obstet-
rical buildings on each side. Two short
corridors will connect them with the
central building.
The administration building will be
devoted to the office work OF the hospi-
tai. In the basement will be located
the wholesale kitchen stores, the house
keepers office, the boiler room, engine
room, elevator machinery, laundry and
mattress storage. The morgue. autopsy
room and waiting room will also be To-
Gated here.
The main entrance admits to the FIRST
floor Of the administration building and
Is located in the center of the main
front. 1t connects with corridor and
leads directly to the main stairway and
elevator service
Adioinin0 fhe entrance IN IN. frat
floor will be the medical superintend-
ent's office and two waiting rooms The
medical board and consultation room
will be in the right wing of the building
on the first floor as well as the room for
the reception Of ambulance patients,
with an examination room in connec-
ton,
The second floor. Of the administra-
tion building will contain four internes
rooms ovef the main entrance and
pathological laboratories In the rear east
wing, with the superintendent Of nurses
room adjacent The central feature Of
this foor win be the dining room foi
conyalescent patients, with a service
pantry supplied from the Kitchen on the
The third floor will contain the med
ical superintendent suite, the house
keepers and dietician's rooms, and the
internes' dining room, with service
pantry.
The nurses dining room and general
kitchen will form the main divisions
of the fourth floor.
The fifth floor will contain an opera
tingting room with service rooms AL
joining. and two ward rooms. The quar-
antine room will be located on this floor
and will form a suite Of a one-bed wal ]
room. an interne's room. a cooks room
and kitchenette-
The obstetricai building and the gyne-
colosical buildings which will form the
two wings. Will be similarly built. CO
tanning as primal features the war
rooms for both pay and free patients.
Spacious ward rooms for the accomm.'-
dation of as many as twelve beds, will
be embodied in the first and secon
floors Of each. The third floors will
given over to private ward rooms, viii
service rooms Literally. distributed. Ea, l
wing will contain a roof garden for tn
recreation of patients and attendants.
Operating rooms with service rSom
adjacent. will be located on the to-
floors of each wing, being in the quie,
est part Of the building. Modern san; q.
tary features have been emphasized j
the plans. Lighting and air space ha
been literally attended to, and tn
heating will be automatically controle
by low pressure exposed radiators.
Plans for the new building have bee
prepared by Nathan wyeth, architec,
and the building viii be in charge of E
liott Woods, superintendent of the Capt.
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