The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-15
QUEENS HOSPITAL
HEAD ISpLANNNG
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
New Main Building That Win Cost
$500, 900, With other Stfuc-
lures Are Included
NOISE TO BE STOPPED;
Z ! SAYS SUPERINTENDENT
Noses 7. clepa Intends TO Make
Institution Equal Of Any In
Country, He Asserts

IE5EsN - - HI-fNNg
g. A new main building 70 cost 5000, 900
and wings built on the unit system TO
cost seo, zoo each, are1amons the plans
for the Queeu's Hospital, Faid Moses
.Fsolegg, the new superintendent Of the
institution. yesterday. Work on one of
the 'pnitssfs soon tosbe started, and he
main building will follow a little lnter.
I'lans and specifications are now be-
ing drawn for the new hospital build
ings! Owing to- the high cost of ma
'tsrials aud labor at the preaent time II
rilnv be decided 20 delay conRt ruction
little, but when the work is finished rs
planned Honolulu will have a modern
hospital second to none in the United
States. &C. ~ +.
In the meantime the new superin.
trndent scwiA ~lt,int execution plans
witch win much improve the present
administration of the institution, ae-
cording to plans outlined yesterday to
The Advertiser. There are many handi.
caps to work under in the present
buildings and administrative arrange
ment, but they will be taken up and
done away with as far as possible.
To Stop Noise
1.-THE, first thing am going after Is
noise,' said Clegg. "There is great
deal more noise than there shonld be in
q hospital. Rubber carpet for the cor.
ridors which do not have II at present
has been ordered, and other measures
will be taken to insure the largest
measure of quiet possible.' 3
b Recent patients at the institution
have complained of the noises which in.
teTfered with their rest daily and
nightly, one woman patient having
gone home a few days after an opera
tion because she could not sleep on ae-
count Of the many footsteps, bells,
t"hing. and other disturbing noises.
The large signs saying "'KPep Quiet
have not seemed to have any effect so
far, but Superintendent Clegg is going
TO explain to everybody just what they
mean, and see that they are observed
The hospital is to be divided into
different working departments with a
single head owe, each, said Clegg, and
the head Of each department such as
nursing, diet, and so forth, will be en-.
tirely responsible for the conduct Of
her especial field. Up to now the
hospital has been run as a one-man in.
stitution, he said, when as a matter
, of. fact 1t 10 tOet large for one man to
AdElnister unless the department plan
is followed. g..
Nurses Needed
At. the present time many of the
complaints Of lack Of attention coming
from patients are due to the fact that
there are not enough pupil. nurses to
care for the many private rooms and
wards. The hospital has been run
ming full, and the force of girls could
not attend to the number assigned to
them.
A few weeks ago there was one pupil
nurse as night nurse on one of the
floors who had under her charge each
night from fourteen to sixteen patients
1t is almost physical impossibility
for one girl to attend to that number
Of patients In private rooms, as these
were, but this girl was on duty night
after night from seven p m. to seven
a. m.
This condition will soon be improved
as Superintendent Clegg said that &
new class Of twelve nurses will be
started the first Of next month
The pupil nurses home is also to be
improved, in order to give the girls
some form Of social life and make theil
hospital quarters more comfortable.
reception room, lecture room, and new
dining room will be added for them Al
once. Thew have now no reception
room in which to see friends or rein
tivrs, nor any lecture room in which
their fr"""ent evening lectures can b.
given. They are using their old din
inc room for their studies.
VIII Take Time
"To bring about any noticeable i'm
provements here will require time, ;
said ClrgG. "and though everything
possible will be done to bring up th,
standard Of the institution as it stands
the hosritol can never be what it ough
to be until 1t has the new buildings
"These will be planned after tn
most approved hospitals Of the east, nnC
will be built with the diet kitchens Of
the top floor, to avoid all kitchen
noises and smells. The first buildint
to he put M will be one of the unit
which III later form a wing of tn
main b. ''d'-P y will contain invent,
private rooms, and it is my intention
to rent them for the smallest sum q
which expenses may be covered. 1t
hardly possible to feed and lodge patti
ent under three dollars and a half o
four dollars a day, but we> shall try T.
keen as near those figures as possible
"This hospital is peculiarly a com
nuritv institution in that it serve
rrncticNIly the whole public of Hono
mm end large proportion of tn
resi'"nts of the other Islands and j
should be an institution in which tn
community can take real pride am
surh a hospital. and am sure that il
such rs hospital, and am sure that il
time it can be done"