The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-15
MAKING READY TO MOVE
Hospital superintendent and Nurses
Will Soon be in Their
New Home

ion County Hospital, came by the
and mother. Mr.. and Mrs John
Dozier, Sunday afternoon. and invit-
ed the editor to go look at the new
hospital building, into which Miss
Marshall and her assistants have
been moving their furniture for the
past few days, and the newspaper
man was glad 10 turn aside for
awhile from commercialism and pol
itics and take a peep at the better
side of life in which men and women
forget themselves in doing for others.
The Star has told at other times
of the healthy and lovely situation
of the new building. and has given
the plan of the building itself, so
will this time try to tell only of the
arrangement of the almost finished
interior.
The management has never had
sufficient funds, but, with the help
of the public spirited contractors,
has gone bravely and economically
on. making every dollar do full duty.
yet looks rather rough on the out
side, and some parts of the interior
are unfinished. The managers could
use $4,000 to good advantage right
now, and the people of Marion and
adjoining counties would be wise in
raising it for them. Ocala is the
only city in Florida except Jackson
Vile, Tampa and Pensacola that has
have tried and failed, and but for
Ocala a big territory would be bare
of one of these most necessary insti-
tutions.
First inside the door to the right,
is the superintendent office, plain
I ly furnished. Noticeable in this
room is a great, big, comfortable
chair, the gift of L. ]. Brumby. It's
an old-fashioned chair, but solid, and
many who never heard of him will
! take comfort in the gift of the kind
! hearted Louis.
On the wall is picture of the
building that has done duty as hos
| pitaI for the last ten years. 1t was
! never built for a hospital, and is in
convenient in many things, but noble
work has been done therein.
! Across the hall is the opera ting
room. 1t is spacious and we'll
| lighted, and will be the last word in
sanitary arrangement and equip
ment Its operating table and other
! apparatus are the same as those
used in Johns Hopkins famous hos
pital in Baltimore.
| Opening out of the operating room
are other rooms for the convenience
of the doctors and keeping of neces-
! sary apparatus in their work Next
! is the mems ward. It is equipped
with beds of the latest style, with
hair mattresses. wirewove springs,
baokrests and other conyeniences,
and a handy table by each bed.
The women's ward is across the
hall and similarly equipped. And at
the end of the hall is the babies
ward with most appropriate equip
ment for the little chaps 1t has the
latest idea in cribs, the sides of
which are so arranged that there is
no danger OF some restless little fel-
low showing his head between the
side-rods and choking himself, as a
baby did in Gainesville last week.
i Upstairs on the third floor are the
private wards, most elegantly tho
) and comfortable rooms, as, good as
can be had at a first-class hotel, and
much better for sick people.
In each floor is a diet kitchen, in
which each patients particular food
@an be prepared. 1t is connected by
a LIZ lift with the main kitchen
in the basement.
The basement is unfinished, but
it is, in shape for the good work to
| commence in it. 1t contains the
kitchen and laundry, and will contain
the directors room.
The colored peoples department
in the rear of the main building, is
unfinished, tho it can be used.
The superintendent and nurses
have their rooms in the annex to the
rear of the main building. They
have eight neat rooms with their
own bathtub and a veranda. all to
themselves. They are moving their
own belongings into their rooms and
fixing them up as so many little
homes. ~
splendid thing abOdt the build
ing is the wide verandas. Every
ward opens on one Of these, and the
! patients beds, all of which are
mounted on rubber tired wheels. can
be pushed thru the doors out on the