The Washington times., 1921-07-03
walter REEDMAYE
BECOME GREATEST
HOSPITAL IN WORLD
Con. irslands Tentative Plans
Call for Flvs-MilIion Dollar
Additions to Unit.

with the addition of ono hundred
acres OF land to the present site ard
the sxpenditure of more than ss.-
100000 for new buildings. the
wsitsr Reed Hospital in ten years
WI. become ine center ofs activity
Of the United States army medical
corps. and win rank as one OF the
greatest army hospltsiS In the
world. ).
This IL the future Of walter Reed
- planned by Maj. Gen. N. w. Ire
land. surgeon general Of the United
States; who. with his aides. are COM
pleting development plans for the
institution a%S :.
.'washinston may we'll be proud
OF waiter Reed when our develop
mont project Is completed" General
Ireland said today. 1T will take
many years TO complete our work.
hut the results will be most bene-
nciai to those who In the future
may come under the care of the
medical corps"
One million and one-half dollars
is 10 be expended for a building to
house the Army Medical School.
which. school is now located on
Louisiana avenue near Court House
square. The new building will be
equipped with the most modern
apparatus to conduce medical ex-
periments OF any kind.
AAGsIFICnNr LIBRARy.
The medical library. the medical
vx.sv
Reed. additional psychiatric wards.
Apartments for medical school
students. a. beautiful chapel. and a
spacious athletic Aeld and parade
ground Will be located on the one.
hundred additional acres on which
the hospital extension will be To-
Gated
Our library is the greatest of its
kind In the world" General Ire
land says. "and by tho time 1t Is
moved from Seventh and B stretes
southwest to Walter Reed Hospital
~ will surpass any like library in
the universe"
All plans for the extension are
tentative At this time. The Army
Medical School. under present plans.
win face south overlooking Four
teepth street II Congress- decides
to permit the extension OF the street
through the hospital grounds
another site for the school will
have to be selected
Directly In front of the Medical
School viii be a sunksn garden.
two blocks long and one block wide.
To the west of the garden will be
the library and to the east the
museum.
All of the new buildings win be
OF red brick. patterned after the
administration building now at the
hospital
Psychiatfic wards to accommo-
erected TO the extreme southeast
OF the sunken garden.
The chapel and post library will
De located east OF the sunken
garden. many yards back from the
medical museum. ~a5-- =.
ofncers' quarters and apartments
Tor students will be to the north
east of the Army Medical School.
5000. 900 -
The parsde ground is to be d.
rectiy north of the medical school
building. baseball diamond, race
track. and other modern athletic
facilities win be provided on the
parade gorund. t
Hothouses and gardens win be
put to the east of the parade
grounds.
When All the work is completed.
Walter Reed will be like one beam
tfui park. with driyeways en-
cfrcIins the grounda All Of the
posldings Will be of the same
architecture. and flowers will be
plsced at every nook and turn Of
the many acres of green grass to
be grown about the hospital.
The extension is just north of
Aspen street, and extends west to
sixteenth street and north 70
Alaska avenue. The land alone
cost more than one-haif a million
dollars.
Lieut. Col, Roger Brooke, In
ena.ge OF hospitals throughout the
United States. is making plans In
his office for the development Of the
hospital