Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-11-04
NEW STATE HOSPITAL
First Contracts Let for
6-StOpV RuiIdinp

6-StOry Building
Contracts have just been let for
the foundation of the first unit of the
Wisconsin General hospital which is
| to be built on the campus Of the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, and. ground
will be broken as soon as the weather
permits. The first building to be e.
rected will be the center of a group
of eight separate buildings to plans
drawn by Arthur Peabody, state ar
chitect
The Bradley Memorial hospital
and the University Infrmary, already
erected, will form two of the eight
units Of the group. The other build
ings are to the central general hos
pital, a children's hospital, a patho-
logical building, psychiatric unit,
pediatric home, and a teaching hos
pital. A nurses home will be inclu-
ded in the psychiatric building
Around the whole group will be a
strip of land which will serve to is
olate the hospital from noise. Flow
er gardens and hedges around the
hospital are outlined in the plans
to make the institution one of the
most attractive of the university
buildings, and will be faced with
buff-colored pressed brick and Bed
ford stone.
The structure that is now under
way will be six stories high, will
contain 800 beds and form the main
unit of the group. 1t will have four
entrances, one for visitors, one for
ambulances, one for the tradesmen
and one for students. The main en-
trance for visitors, to be called the
Memorial Entrance, will be two sto-
ries high lined with marble and dec
Grated with bronze tablets commem-
Grating Badger soldiers and sailors
and with inches for portrait statues.
This will lead into a large visitors
or public room. On the first floor
will be a large waiting or consulting
room and "a examination rooms, the
hospital record room, pharmacy, kit
chen and store rooms, the nurses
ward and the X-ray laboratories
Each ward will have a separate
sun porch and on the roof there will
be an open garden where patients
may exercise in the open air A
logga, two stories high, an arcade
with a high open room for GONZALES
cents, will be a feature of the build
ing. The total cost of the central
building will be about $1,200,000
of which $4,000 will be expended
on construction and 100000 on
equipment and furnishings.
The entire Wisconsin General Hos
pital project, which was provided for
by a measure voted by the legisla-
ture at a special session last spring,
will require ten years for compile
ton. 1t will provide, both the need
ed facilities for the expansion of the
universities two-year pre-medical
course into a full four-year medical
school of the first class, and also the
staff and equipment whereby the
state may provide care and treat
mentment for it's sick and crippled
AS a further development of the
ideal embodied in the county nurse
law, it will provide a means for the
treatment of cases reported by coun-
ty nurses.
The Wisconsin General hospital is
to be a research hospital combining
theory and practice. Students in the
university medical school will serve
as internes and assistants in the hos
pital, and the specialists and experts
whose employment will be made pos
sible by the combining of the two
projects, will serve both on the hos
pital staff and on the medical schoo
faculty. All possible facilities fol
handling state hospital cases will be
installed.