The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-14
Police HOSPITAL. ...
!. v0R|k',HEIAs STARTED
fs& W. N -, III
viii Have Up To-Date Operating
Room and Four Cots For
Emergency Cases
Inquest Room and Detention
Ward For Juvenile DeIin-
quents To Be Incorporated

Work on the emergency hospital at
the police station was started last week
and the holes for the piers have al.
ready been made. Today work on the
piers will begin, and the tearing down
of the old runway will also be started.
Jack Davis Is in charge Of the work,
which will, II is expected, be finished
by October l8. DIR. X. @. Aver, the
police surgeon and emergency hospital
physician, will have his equipment
ready for installation just as soon as
the builders have finished their end of
the job. The old runway Is to be done
away with and new one will be con
strueted, leading from the left Of the
present landing, to the cells. There
will also be a runway from the land.
ing to the entrance to the operating.
room Of the hospital. .... -
Model Operating Room p"
The operating room will be equipped
with an up-to-date hospital sink and, Of
course, an operating table and instru
ment case, as well as other modern IA
cilities. Doctor Aver will have his Of
fee to the left of the operating room
and an emergency ward, fitted with al
least four cots, will be located be
tween the, receiving station and the
hospital proper, H.
On the far side of the hospital there
will be q room which will be used for
the purpose of holding inquests, In
the past, inquests have been held "
the office OF the sheriff, a proeeduF,
which. Ia saw. the least, has been in
convenient. The inquest room also viii
| be used as a juvenile detention room
| in which juvenile delinquehts or Others
Of tender years whom it may be nee
essary TO house for a time at tn,
police.station, win be detained. ~.
Detention Ward Needed
For q long time there has been agita
ton on the part of those eonncc'ef
with juvenile and humane work In ythi
city as to the need of place wher,
having to be locked up in the company
Of adult prisoners. So far oil efforts
to obtain an appropriation for this pur
pose have failed and, in order to NEE
the situation as far as possible, Sheriff
Rose had, in the good cause, encroach
ed, in way, on the emergency hos
Pital appropriation.
Discussing the hospital last night
Doctor Aver said: ,s
1--WE shall be able TO treat all case
brought in, with the exception of tbos
needing major operations, and whicl
will be taken to Queens Hospital, IN
der the old agreement between til
supervisors and the trustees of tn
hospital.
New Ambulance Next . ...
"Plans are being studied at Oh
present time for the new ambulance
The need of an uu.to-date ambulane
for the city certainly has been prove
during the past two or three months
In the short time in which i have bee
here we have had occasion to nee priv
ate automobiles For the transportatio
Of patients to the h5sbital, on accoun
bf here not being sufficient room in tn
patrol. wagon, which, must say, ha
done good service in the past. H..
81" When we have the aInbulanc
working IN connection with the erfierE
ency hospital, we will be in q positio
TO treat emergency cases as well q
they are treated anywhere on the mair
land. -'f.,.s .. 4. -.
1t is understood that the matter 0
the ambulance will be brought up a
tonights meeting Of the board of suI
ervisors, and that bids. will be ealle
for Immediately. ... h. ,-y.,f..