Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31

kitchen on each floor, where the
nurses are likely to be in event no one
| is in the stations.
Next to the nurses station on each
| floor is nurses sink room, one of the
most important departments of the
entire institution. Each of these
rooms is equipped with slop hop
per, bed pan sterilizer and steam
heated receptacle for keeping the
pans and dozen blankets warm at
all times, laundry tub, and gas and
electric fixtures. Sterilization is ac-
complished by high pressure steam,
the bed pans, after being washed be-
ing placed in a receptacle for the
steam process.
Mr.. Cervin said there ar but very
few hospitals having this modern sys-
TEN of sterilization.
On all floors there are public toilets
and baths, the bathrooms being sepa-
rate and being indirectly lighted with
frosted glass windows between the
women's and mems toilet rooms This
Of three fixtures to a single main
Bath tubs on the first and second
floors are of the ordinary size but that
on the third floor is something more
than six feet in length, so having been
installed for baths in cases
where immersion of the entire body
by running water is necessary. At
tached to the inlet is a thermostat
which keeps the water at an even tenn
perature.
Three Nodes of Ventilation.
! AS everyone knows, proper ventila-
ton is an important factor in the
/ treatment of persons who are i'll. I'm
/ til recently it has been problem to
ventilate a sick room without a draft
/ on the patient. AS result of many
years of experiment, the Austral draft
/ less window was perfected, and this
/ type is used in every room of the Luth-
eran hospital. With use of these win
dOWs it is possible to admit sufficient
fresh air with absolutely no chance
( Of draft blowing on the bed, though
1t is next to the window. There are
/ two sashes which move on an iron bar
| in such way that the windows may
I be opened the full length of one sash,
/ or any width desired. Ventilation has
+ been given particular attention by Mr..
Cervin, who has inaugurated three
modes. One is by use of an electric
/ suction fan which draws out impure
air from the three diet kitchens and
/ the laundry. A ventilating duct, AZ
inches in diameter, which opens on
! the roof, carries off air from the public
bath and toilet rooms, while a large
shaft which surrounds the smokestack
creates fresh air current through the
! corridors, the nurses sick rooms and
the larger wards, and does not permit
the air to become stale This system
OF supplying fresh air is the result OF
deep study on the part of the archi-
tect who, during the construction of
the building made a number of trips
to other cities to study modern hospi-
tai architecture.
Sanitation, even to the smallest de-
tail, has been observed and not only
are there absolutely no lodges or cor
ners in which dust may collect, but
the place is made easy to keep clean
and pure by elimination of baseboards,
panels in doors, door and window cas-
ings, and by the floors in closets be-
I IN q 10 1ac %
with brush and soap. In lieu of base
boards conGave metal is used around
the floors and there are no corners
around the ceilings. Metal quarter
round is used around the doors and
windows instead of wood castings.
TerrazzO floors, made Of gravel and
cement, are used throughout the build
ing, Having a perfectly smooth sur
face, the floors are easy to keep clean.
The fancy iron balustrades have been
dispensed with for sake OF sanitation,
railing along the staircases being at
tached to a solid wall of plaster, where
= no dust may accumulate. Steps are of
: yellow hardened cement, absolutely
freproof and sanitary.
, Three Sun PGrches.
= Persons convalescent will find de-
light in summing themselves on the
/ sun porches, of which there are three
: one on the south end of each floor
: Windows from within two feet of the
! cement floor to the ceiling are on
: three sides, admitting the sunlight al
J all hours Of the day. From the porch
: es a picturesque view is afforded to
' the south, east and west, and they are
mighty inviting to the visitors in these
; dreary days.
r The elevator is of the latest type
: 1t is being installed by the A. E. Mont
= gomery Elevator company of Moline
Being controlled automatically, there
! can be no danger to the person using
: 1t. By pressing a button at the side
a of the door OF the lift, it will move tC
the floor where the button is pressed
! and stop, though not unless the door
: is closed where it is stationed Meth.
er is it possible to open the door un.
, less the elevator Is flush with the
floor. Thus all danger is removed
, Beyond the elevator shaft on each
= floor is a spacious vestibule, which II
-. separated from the corridors of the
; hospital proper by double sound-proo
: doors, precluding the possibility Of
= patients being ANNOYED by noise of the
elevator in operation. The same style
Of doors are used to shut off the stair