The Washington herald., 1921-01-31
The Perfect
Hospital
Fifth Avenue Edifce to
Embrace AU That
Is Modern.
ny RAYMOND C. CARROLL.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-For some
time past have been watching with
increasing interest the growing into
imposing proportions of a queer
looking structure on Firth avenue
between 105th and lo6th streets,
which has the exact shapes of
sawbuck lying upon its side-a gi-
gantic letter Y.
Today I mustered up courage and
made inquiry regarding the build
ing. 1t is the new Fifth Avenue
Hospital that is to take the place
of the Hahremann Hospital and the
reason of Sts strange srape is to
rave each Of its 800 rooms open to
light and air But the real glory
of the new edifice for the sick is the
complete absence of wards. 1t is
going to be a wardless hospital. In
stead of those long, drAad ere ating.
awfullooking and depressing bed
lined rooms known as wards. reek-
ing with the Odors of dis.rfection
and filled with the sight Of suffer
ing there are being built separate
rooms for each patient, where his
or her needs will be looked after
individually. In short, thr Fifth
Avenue Hospital aims to be thc
perfect hospital" and tic trail
blazer for an advanced iJ-a.
Half Rooms Free.
. of the 800 rooms. One-lLlf will
be free. or partly so, explained Dr.
Wiley Bxan Woodbury., its mead and
genius Of the project. 'Gh" big
thing is that we will Uc able to
guarantee privacy for ever. in per
son who comes to us. TIE ward
system should have been shandOEad
long ago. 1t is not good reasoning
to expect a person to be at Cympara-
tive ease when surrounded on all
sides by persons who are in pain.
Then there is always the danger Of
disease being carried from one pa
ient to another in the wards. We
shall reduce this danger to mega
tive minimum, and to each private
room there will be a bathroom at
tached."
The feeding CT the patiyuts will
teSpatteFned after the central seTY-
ice systems of the big hotels. Or
ders from the nine floors will be
transmitted by telsttograph 10 the
central service room in the base
ment, where they will be hled and
delivered by electric dumb walters
The cost of the new hospital with
its equipment is estimated al So
100000, and it will be ready TO re-
ceive patients by the first Of July.
Navy Time Telling.
Frequently a number of warships
drop anchor in the Hudson River of
Riverside Drive, and upon such oC-
casions occupants of the tall apart
ment houses have discovered that
in one instance, at least, accuracy
is lacking in the navy. We all
know that time on shipboard is
told by bells. In wholly perfect
navy the bells upon all the ships
should sound the same hour to-
7gether. but We who have listened
learn that as much as three or four
minutes discrepancy occurs between
the bells on the different ships,
II, there had been similar aCCu-
racy between, say, the artillery and
infantry in France in the moment
OF a planned attack, the consc-
quences would have been serious.
However, 1t is safe to assume that
in time of war the tins of the vsri-
Gus navy clocks in squadron are
regulated to the very second.
.-..- MsseAeid's Hahrout.
: Luke o'Connor. in whose saloon
John Masefeld, the English poet,
once washed glasses, when he re-
tired from business turned over the
Columbian to the fight fans for
their indoor work.
When the weather is, good the
young boxers do their road work
under the wide-spreading trees of
washington Square, and very early
in the morning up Fifth avenue and