Evening star., 1917-05-27
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I'm for you, your family. your
oS friends. your employees, is
the expression of the service which the
Washington.
This is the motto which this hospital
holds always before it, and, what is more,
this is the motto which it actually lives
up to. \ trip through the new building
on New York avenue near 18th street
shows all of the hospital equipment
prepared, as efficiently as modern med
icai science makes possible, to handle
emergency cases of every sort from cut
lips to broken backs.
The trip demonstrates not only the
comparative safety with which the citl-
zens of the capital eat, drink and have
their being-for a remedy there awaits
have been accomplished in the plan
ming, building and equipment of the
modern hospital
Emergency Hospital is one of the ex-
cellent examples of the adjustment of
site, architecture and fittings to the
needs of sick and accidentally stricken
people. In the first place, it is near the
downtown section, where heavy traf-
tic and business life cause the greater
number Of tn" citys accidents. and at
the same time il is set in quiet sec
1ion adjacent to the White Lot, where
dust is not stirred by noisy passing
motors.
The building itself was planned with
the idea that a modern hospital is a
health factory and not an art museum.
therefore its external appearance should
be simple and dignified with enough
embellishments to give it a cheerful as
pect. And indeed, if the exterior is
equipment of the interior, upon which
the greatest sums We're spent, more
than atones for any lack of magnif-
icence.
The roof is equipped in winter with
a solarium. so that the patients may
enjoy the splendors of their surround
fngs just the same in winter as in sum-
mer
The internal arrangement is based
on the unit" plan, each floor being a
separate unit sufficient unto itself At
the rear of the building is a fire escape,
which is real staircase-not a hook
and ladder Notwithstanding fight by
flight from roof to ground. Four fire.
ming from top to bottom floor. inside
the building, which provides an addi-
tional fire escape. Two electric eleva-
tors serve as extra means Of egress in
case oI IRE. All tneSe provisions nave
been made, though the building is as
near fireproof in construction as possible.
The ninth and top floor is devoted
to the culinary department.
There, completely cut off from the
lower floors, is a big kitchen, virtually
a hotel kitchen, equipped with electri-
cal and gas cooking apparatus-auto-
matte vegetable and fruit parers, dish
and sterilizing machines. ven-
tilation system. by which a suction
INN a iroi in a "a a n1n nf 1rin
all the adjuncts, in short, necessary
for preparing food for large number
of persons.
There. also, is the separate kitchen
who prepares the special dishes re-
quired by certain patients. Miss Graft
was preparing some delectabIe dishes
at the time of the reporters visit that
surely looked as though they would
buoy the spirits of any weak person.
An elaborate cold storage and day sup
ply pantry complete the kitchen equip
ment. On this floor are also the Sleep
ing quarters of the chef and dietician
and the dining room of the doctors and
nurses.
The eighth floor is the surgical unit.
Its main feature is the amphitheater
room-whtte, light. large and
which may be SO regulated that the
faintest particle is apparent to the
naked eye Of the surgeon. At night a
condensation light gives the
same quality of illumination At least
100 surgeon and doctor students may be
in this room for OBJ
servation of operations.
Another major operating room which
is always ready for an emergency oper-
a tim a Dlace To