New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-22
Jewish Maternity Hospital
Has Employed Method
with Excellent Results.
PATIENTS APPEAR
IN FINE SPIRITS
First Institution Exclusively De.
voted TO Treatment Soon
To Be Established.

Following the announcement that
DR.. John o. Polak, who recently ar
rived in this country from Europe,
would introduce here the twilight
sleep method in cases of childbirth,
it was stated yesterday By Irwin Ar
now, superintendent Of the Jewish
Maternity Hospital, that this treat
ment has been successfully used at
the institution for the last three
months.
Drugs have been employed IN l25
cases out Of $50 confnements, under
the direction Of German physician
who studied the method with Profess
sors Kronig and Gauss a. the Univer-
sity Of Freiberg. The physician pre-
fers to withhold his name until he has
reported officially to the medical au-
thorities. He will read paper before
the American Congress Of Obstetri-
clans in Buffalo next month.
Patients in the hospital said yester-
day that they had suffered no pain
whatever under the twilight sleep"
treatment, although they remember
talking with doctors. Among those
seen we're Mrs. Sadie Bender, of 27i
Henry ST., and Mrs. Rose Weinberger,
of 2O4 West 143d st. These women are
mothers of healthy boys, born August
H. Both appeared in excellent health
and spirits.
Narkophn and scopalomin. which
are used. can be obtained only from
Germany, in the form necessary for
use in the twilight sleep" DR.. Ar
now said that since the war began the
price Of these ingredients has gone
from 81 cents TO 81 so for twelve
amphules. Fortunately. he said, a
gross of cases was lately received at
the hospital. Twelve amphules are suf-
f.cient for ten normal cases, he eX-
planned.
Dr.. Arrow has announced that the
Jewish Maternity Hospital will take,
free Of charge, any New York City
patient who cannot afford to pay for
treatment. There are now in the in
stitution several such patients. The
authorities are emphatic in stating
that there are no after effects and that
the system results in real benefits to
the mother.
Il became known yesterday that the
first hospital in this country to be de
voted exclusively to twilight sleep
J.. to be constructed at once. II will
be built and operated by a syndicate
OF New York physicians. One OF the
officials of the new corporation is DR..
Max Heller. of pa Henry st.
The institution will be known as
"The Twilight Maternity Sanatorium'
and will be in the Hunts Point section
Of The Bronx.
Louis Allen Abramson. of 900 Broad
way, architect of the hospital build
ing, last night gave the following de-
scription of the plans:
THE building will have four floors
and the rooms will be so arranged
that no artificial light will be required
in any of them during the day. As a
departure from the usual design Of
hospital building, we shall have no
storage rooms, laundries or workrooms
I'M the basement. The men back of the
proposition feel that even IN store
rooms natural light and ventilation
are best.
"On the roof will be a sun parlor
and roof garden for the use Of pa
tients. In the twilight room the
light will come from above, and can
be so shaded that it will resolve itself
into a soft glow. This is, | understand,
one of the features of the system.
ALSO, the rooms are TO be laid out
so that the child can remain in the
room with its mother. The area Of the
plot on which we are to build is sufii-
Gent for the construction of a large
addition without cutting of air and
light. Work on the sanatorium will
be begun at once, and within a short
time thirty-four patients, the initial
capacity, can be accommodated