The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-28

handsome four-story building. &C.
cording to present plans, and will be
ample to care for all contagious
diseases which may be brought to 1t
even under abnormal conditions. 1t
Will have department where negroes
with contagious diseases will be cared
for quite separate from the private
rooms and wards, which will be de-
voted to white patients.
The nurses home will meet an alb
soute necessity Al the present time
the nurses are obliged TO live four in
a room in an old building totally un-
fit for residential purposes, Their
new building, as proposed. will In
Cludc reading rooms. library, recep-
ton room. assembly hall and gym
nasium. A matron will be in charge
of the now home, and rne social acti-
vities of the girls will be supervised
ny the directories Of nurses.
/ At the present time there are sixty
five pupil nurses in the school of
nursing. Only a few of these are
from the city of Richmond. The
greater number come from through
out the State and from North Caro-
lima. The average age Of the girls
is twenty-four years. One year In
the high school is the minimum al
lowed a candidate for admission to
the school of nursing. and high ideals
are required on the part of all the
girls.
Endowment of Rooms.
A gift of ten thousand (s10,000l
dollars will endow a room in the pro-
posed new hospitals and VIII entitle
The donor during life and that of one
successor to he named by the donor
TO nominate from time To time pa
tent to use and occupy the room sub
1ect to the rules and regulations of
the hospital which govern the ad-
mission, treatment and discharge of
patients No charge will be made
whatever for the hospital services
given the patient occupying this en-
bowed room when named by the do
nor.
A gift of five thousand $4,000
dollars will cndow a bed in a public
ward in the proposed new hospital
and Will enttie the donor during life
on that Of one successor to be named
by the donor to nominate from time
to Time q patient TO occupy this bed
without charge.
A gift OF three thousand t$3,o0o)
dollars Will endow a bed In the chill
dren's ward, and entitle the donor.
during life and that of one successor.
10 be named by the donor, to nomi-
nate from time 10 time a patient to
-accupy- this bed without charge,
A brass plate inscribed according
to the wishes of the donor will be
placed upon the door Of every en-
dowed room. Bronze tablets Will be
erected In tho main lobby OF the pro-
posed new hospitals. upon which will
be inscribed the names of the various
donors and an engraved certificate,
suitably inscribed, bearing the sigma
ture OF the hospital, will also be is
sued to the donors.
Can Caro- For 10000 Patients.
Memorial Hospltal cares for about
5000 patients each year in its present
buildings, With the proposed new
hospitals It's capa ctty will be doubled.
In the present hospital over 2,5o0 pa
! tlents are treated yearly from outside
the city OF Richmond,
The mortality ut the hospital Is sur
! prisinaiy low--iess than per cent of
all the patients treated, including
surgical cases, die in the hospital, This
I low death rate is the result of the
I high standard of efficiency maintained
under the present management and
marks Memorial Hospital as one OF
I the leading institutions in the country
Memorial Hospital differs from tho