The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-07
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St. Mary's New Hospital

daily sacrifice of the Mass, Five
hundred years have wrought many
changes in this old world of ours; but
the spirit that inspired a wise solicit
tude for soul and mind as well as
body in the fifteenth century hospitals,
lives still in st. Mary's of the TWEEN
tieth century. For here, too, Mass is
said daily; and here, too, even pa
TENTS confined to their beds may as
sist at the holy Sacrifice. When the
wide folding doors of the chapel are
thrown open the altar is at once Wis
ible to everyone in the third-hoor
corridor of the south wing Those I'M
able to reach the chapel itself MAY
attend Mass by having their beds or
invalid chairs wheeled out into the
corridor.
Scientific Equipment.
On the fifth floor there are five large
operating rooms along the north side
of the main corridor. Alternating
with the operating rooms, convenient
for both doctors and attendants, are
three sterilizing rooms and two wash
up rooms with every convenience
known to modern science. On the
south side Of the corridor is an oper-
ating room for orthopedic surgery;
there are two others for eye, ear,
nose and throat specialists, an
anesthetizing room, and a cystoscopic
room. In all those rooms there is an
eight-fOOt wainscoating of Carrara
glass, a material absolutely non-ab-
sorbent, the deadly enemy of all in
lection. The X-ray department is also
on the fifth floor and is equipped with
the latest and most complete Roent-
gen apparatus. The latest type of the
Shook 'interrupterless" unit installed
by the Victor Electric Corporation,
stands ready for microscopy, radio
graphy, and autobiography in verti-
cal, horizontal and angular positions.
The X-ray laboratory was planned and
installed by trained specialists.
The two recovery rooms on this
floor are sunny and cheerful with
every arrangement to stimulate the
Separate dressing
rooms for doctors and for the operat-
ing nurses as we'll as a pathological
laboratory for the study and classifi-
cation of disease complete the equip
ment of the top floor.
On the ground floor the hydro
therapeutic department is unique in
its character and completeness. The
highly polished, nickel-plated fixtures
are reflected in the marble tables and
the vitrolite walls. The continuous
bath, needle shower, sitz bath, sham
poo and rub are all controlled by a
complete, yet simple system of valves
and graduated scales which combine
perfect fieXibility with the widest pos
sible range of treatment. On the
ground floor also there are eleven
special rooms for the care of nervous
and delirious cases.
Domestic Arrangements.
Scientific order and completeness
characterize the domestic no less than
the other departments. The Sisters
of st. Joseph, who have charge of the
hospital, have their living quarters on
the first and second floor of the north
wing. There are separate dining
rooms on the ground floor for doctors,
for nurses and for the male help. On
every floor there are serving rooms
connected by automatic dump-waiter
with the main serving room on the
ground floor. A whole chapter might
be written about the kitchen-its COM
plete equipment of gas and electric
ranges, its food testing devices, its
Sterilizing and sanitary arrangements
There are five refrigerator compart-
mentS kept at zero temperature when
necessary by the use of brine coils
instead of ice, though the artificial ice
plant on the same floor is of the best
model. The kitchen, serving rooms
and refrigerators are all walled with
1on-absorbent tile. They are as spot
ess as are the operating rooms and
keep the food secure from every
source of infection from the moment
t enters the building.
The engine-room in a separate
contains two engines and
generators which supply the electric
lights and all the electric power of
he institution. A complete switch
BOARD controls the current in all the
The boiler-room contains
our high-pressure boilers, fed by
hot water tanks and vacuum
pumps. All the large piping running
rom the engine-room is contained in
| huge sub-basement tunnel seven feet
n height. Into this tunnel, too, the
for the laundry is discharged
rom the glass-lined, water-tight
clothes chutes, which reach every
loor.
Did space permit one might say
much about such equipment as the
'acuum sweepers on every floor,
Ibout the blanket warmers, about
he half-hundred clocks through
nut the building in absolute unison
With the master clock in the main |
'ffice; about the emergency operating
DOM close to the ambulance entrance,
nd about the free dispensary where |
he poor and the destitute will re-
GIVE the attention and care of the |
anne staff of Sisters, doctors and |
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