The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

JNDAY MORNING, JULY
pital to meet this comparatively mod
ern therapeutic knowledge; viz: when
he planned the ten sun parlors, or
screen-enelosed verandas which adorn |
the north, south and east exposures |
of the building.
These delightful fresh-air retreats
will be accessible to all classes of |
patients through broad openings at |
all of the corridor termini. Particu-
larly win this be true as to the con-
valescents.
Broad and Commodious.
Broad and conmodious, foored
with exquisitely polished terrazza
over the substantial reinforced con-
crete supporting floors, Of which ma
terial they are all constructed, these
sun parlors alone cannot but prove
magnets of wonderful attractive
power to this superb modern hos
pital.
Breeze-swept Day and Night.
Unobstructed by anything more
substantial than, the finely woven
copper wire screening placed around
them as a protection from insect in
vasion, these delightful piazzas, by
day, are bathed in that Incompatible
southern sunlight so eagerly sought
by northern invalids. And both by
day and by night, summer and win
ter, are swept from end to end by per-
ennial salt-ladened breezes from the
Gulf of Mexico-breezes pregnant at
all seasons with the deliciously balmy
ozone of the semi-tropics; breezes
that sing sweet Iullabys to the sick
and afflicted to WOO them back to
health and vigor.
Power Plant
Separted from the main building
by approximately eighty feet of open
space and connected with the hos
pttal only by pipe and conuit tunnel,
the power plant, constructed of the
! same material and finished with the
} same thoroughness as to detail as the
hospital itself, is located Immediately
to the rear, or east, of the hospital.
Equipment of Power Plant.
In this building the steam heating
plant and the boilers for its opera
ton; also for the operation of the
refrigeration plant, the laundry and
a large plant for the disinfection of
beds, mattresses, pillows, blankets
etc. In this building also are locat-
ed the electric transformers for the
distribution Of light and power
throughout the main building. The
] boiler room, refrigeration plant, dis
{ infacting plant and electric trans.
: formers are all located on the ground
{ floor; the laundry occupies the en-.
!, tire second floor, while the third
! floor is devoted to living apartments
: for the male mechanical skilled anc
t unshlled help employed by the hos.
: lpital.
AS stated above, this building i.
I connected with the main building
only by pipe and conduit tunnel
Through this tunnel the steam pipes
he cold air and electric wire conduits
inter- the main building.
Enormous Quantities of Material.
To partially convey an approx
nate impression of the hospital.
proportions, as well as an idea of it
arge cost, recital of the followine
specifications of raw material which
as entered into its construction viii
doubtless prove interesting: ON
hundred and six carloads--approxi
nately a mile of ordinary freight car
of Alabama sandstone and thirty
three carloads of Indiana limeston,
have been consumed in the construc
lion of the outer walls of the mali
building and power plant; two mil
lion two hundred and seventy-eigh
thousand brick and thirty thousan,
narrels of portland cement have gon
lto the foundation, inner walls an,
Enforced concrete construction; 81,
ousand bags-fve carloads-o
arble chips and one carload of mar
dust have been consumed in tn
razza flooring and wainscoatinI
I'd more than two miles of cerami
e and five carloads of polished mar
slabs have been used in the con
'uction Of the bath rooms, toilets
voratories, diet kitchens, etc., an
ore than two and a half miles o