The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-24
NORWOOD HOSPITAL ID BE THROWN OPEN TUESDAY FTERNOON
Newest Institution of Kind in City Has Every Mod ern Facility for Hos
 pital Service

Those interested in the relief of human suffering and in Birmngham's equipment for this dork are asked to accept the in- vitation to inspect the Norwood hospi- tai and Training school next Tuesday afternoon between the hours of and 10 o'clock.
 Norwood Hospital and Training school is at the intersection of Twenty-fifth street and Seventeenth avenue, north, in an ideal environment. The building, which is of hollow tile and brick veneer, is virtually freproof and embodies the most advanced developments in hospital construction. It consists of a basement and three stories, and is fine example of what mechanical genius and scientific thought can do in protecting the sick and suffering from external distractions and in ministering to their comfort in lnnumerable ways.
 An inspection of the institution will have a distinct educational value for the layman, while all physicians and sur geons will appreciate the opportunity of viewing Birmingham's latest addition to hospital equipment. The only wood in the structure are the blocks in the doors,
 hich swing on double hinges. This means that the building is nearly fire proof as it is possible to make it. The precautions against noise and distrac- ton are equally as efficient The floors are virtually soundproof doors open and close noiselessly, and an elevator with an entrance from the ground floor per mits the reception of a patient in any portion of the building, including the operating rooms, without disturbing the other inmates There are two public wards, two private wards and Is private rooms. In each of these every precau- ton has been taken to assure the quie- tude of the patient Electric light sig nals have been substituted for call bells and the arrangement is such that when patient presses the button the signal is seen by nurses in any portion of the building.
 The Brascolite overhead system of lighting keeps the glare of light from the eyes of patients and their meals are conveyed to them on rubber tired vehicles.
 The opaaetlng rooms. which are on the upper floor, are separated from the re- mainder of the building by double doors
 There are three of these rooms, one of them devoted to eye, nose and throat and the others to general surgical work The patient is received in an etherizing room, which has no suggestion of the knife. The main operating rooms have northern light and 600 candle power cleo tric lamps, reinforced by gas arc bur ners In the surgeons lavatory knee pressure levers dispense with the use of the hands in turning water on or off Indeed, the same carefulness is mani fested in the provision for the comfort of physicians surgeons and nurses as in that for the patients themselves
 The training school is to prepare those who wish to become professional nurses and Nenrollments have already begun Miss 'Gelder, government representa- tive of Red Cross work in this district, will teach course in dietetics during the summer months.
 The officers of the Institution are: c. W. Carraway, M. D., president; NJ E. Moreland, M. D., vice president; Lex w. Hubbard. M. D., secretary and treas urer. The supervision and management of the building and of the training school have been entrusted to Mrs Ethel F. Hendon, who has devoted virtually all her life to the nursing of the sick and has held responsible positions in hospitals in