Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-06
NEW HOSPITAL OPEN
TOWS|TORS TODAY
Central Dispensary and Emer-
gency Building Ready for
Occupancy.
PLANT COST $4,000
TO BUILD AND EQUIP
Last Word in Medical and Surgical
Appliances Features the
Institution.

The new Central Dispensary and
Emergency Hospital. costing $450.0o0
to build and equip, on New York ave-
nue. just north of the Corcoran Art
Gallery. was opened to the public this
morning, the ten floor of the hospital,
called by experts lone of the finest. if
not the finest, hospital in the world"
| being crowded with visitors and doc
tors and nurses acting as guides. The
building is to be open to public in
spection today until o'clock and to-
morrow from IL o'clock in the morning
until 8 o'clock in the afternoon.
Those showing sightseers the plant"
today include Woodbury. Blair, presi-
dent; Arthur T. Brice and George
| White, treasurers; DIR. Harry Lewis.
superintendent of the hospital; DIR. H.
NJ Kaufman, Mrs. George Becker and
DR.. w. p Carr composing the equip
ment committee, and Dr. Carr, DR.. A.
Stands and w. Turpin, composing the
building committee.
The great hospital is built on the
unit system, each floor being a sepa-
| rate and self-sustaining hospital plant
The floors are connected with elevator
system and fireproof staircase.
Feature Of Hospital.
A feature of the hospital on occupa-
ton will be the endowment of beds and
wards by individuals in memory OF dear
ones. Many beds and private rooms are
already thus endowed and tablets put
in place. In the southeast corner OF
the first floor are two beautiful rest or
recovery rooms, bearing bronze tablets
inscribed:
FURNISHED in memory OF
the builders of
The Evening Star"
Tablets over the door of a three-bed
ward or a special private bedroom Will
be $500 A tablet over the door OF
special bedroom is to be 5000 tablet
over a ward bed is to be $3.50.
The hospital is equipped 10 .ase S Sa re
Of the many emergency cases ana 10
care for all sorts of patients OF the
National Capital, both free patients and
pay patients. There are wards for
white and colored patients. and Tour
floors of private and semi-private
rooms for pay patients.
The tenth floor Is devoted to the roof
garden and solarium. which IN winter
will be inclosed with glass. A large
| walk for convalescents is provided as
wall as rest rooms, etc.
The ninth floor is devoted to the hos
pital kitchen. the doctors and nurses
dining rooms. the quarters for the help
and a ventilating plant. The kitchen
and connects with every one of the
floors Of the building with a special
electric dumbwaiter in special diet
kitchen on each floor, to which food is
sent to each diet kitchen as desired
from the central kitchen on the ninth
floor.
Novel Ventilating Plant.
The ventilating plant gathering the
pure air from It's height overlooking
the Potomac. supplies sterile air at any
temperature to the entire building and
especially to the operating rooms.
This ventilating plant is said to be the
only one of its kind in the District Of
On the eighth floor are two large
operating rooms and the x-ray lab
oratories. The large operating room Is
surrounded by an amphitheater and
contains the most modern equipment
ment are Of white enamel and monel
metal, and are silent" ma king no noise
in movement. There are no sharp cor
ali the cabinets have slanting tops, so
that a nurse can have no excuse for
not seeing any dust that may settle
upon them. All equipment is auto
matte. On the eighth floor, also. are
the anesthetic rooms and sterilizing
rooms.
The operating rooms are lighted by
northern windows during the day and
at night have a brilliant system of
e' Tha fourth fh fifth. sixth and seventh
floors are devoted entirely to private
brass, and the rooms are furnished
| with bird's-eye maple dressers, etc.
and wicker work. On each of these
| floors are three sun parlors. furnished
| in old ivory. Each private floor and
| ach ward floor of the hospital has its
| Individual sterilizing apparatus, which
| Is in turn connected with the general
sterilizing apparatus of the hospital on
| the eighth floor.
Every bed throughout the hospital.
both In the public wards and the pri-
yate rooms. is equipped with an auto
matte headrest and sfx-inch rubber
rollers. Every door to the private
rooms and wards is wide enough to al
low the beds to be rolled through them
without disturbing the patients.
Bells Warn Of Poison.
Among the novel equipment Of the
hospital are medicine cabinets with
time the section containing poisons is
opened.
The third floor is devoted to the fe-
TENTS and to the children's ward The
second floor is devoted to the male
wards for white and colored patients.
Every bed mas its individual electric
call system, and each ward has 'look-
out" for nurse, from which she can
survey the entire ward and every bed
in 1t, and Immediately see where serv-
ice is required both night and day.
There are seven-foot beds for espe-
cially lengthy patients. There are
rooms for violent patients and sound
proof rooms for noisy persons The
second and third floors have open
porches on the north. The fire escapes
are on the north Of the building.
The first floor is devoted to the gen.
eral Offices, and to emergency and dis
pensary cases. There Is a sunstroke
room, with special tank devices. There
is a special room for emergency con-
taRious cases. The basement contains
the laundry. autopsy room. boilers. and
the general electric and cold storage
plants.
Active work toward moving from the
old quarters at 18th street and Ohio
avenue Is to start Saturday.
PROBABLY FATALLY WOUNDED.