The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-18
Plans For Addition
To Hospital Ready
Drawings of County Engineer
Approved by Board of SUI
pervisors and Bids for Con-
struction Wanted.

Further extensions of Malulani Hos
pital are to be made forthwith accord
ing to plans of the county engineer
which were approved by the board ol
supervisors at the Friday session last
week when he was instructed to pre-
pare the specification and issue the
call for bids which are to be opened al
the meeting of the board next month
The work will complete the general
main building plan which was work
ed out by the county engineer some
time since and of which the addition
now nearing completion was part
When the section for which bids are
now to be sought, the administration
building, is completed the main hos
pital buildings will all have been con.
nected up with one another by porches
or lanais and will be so arranged in
relation to location to one another as
to form a quadrangle with an open
court in the center. That court can
be improved and beautified by lands.
cape gardening so as to make it pleas
ing and attractive to the eye, with
walks, flowers beds, grass patches and
other decorative effects.
Twelve Room Building
Plans for the administration build
ing as presented to the board by Engi-
neer Low call for IL room structure
The new accommodations which are TO
be provided will be a superintendent s
business office, II by Ia feet waiting
and reception room, IA by IA feet;
dispensary, IA by 16; work and utility
room IL by 16 feet; operating room,
16 by 20; sterilizing room, II by IA;
scrub up room, s by IA; X-ray room,
12 by 20; dark room, 6 by 8; store
room, by 12; Doctors laboratory, s
by IA and doctors consultation room,
IL by IA.
The operating, sterilizing and scrub
up rooms will have tile floor over con-
crete foundations with tiling extending
up the walls to within feet of the
ceilings. The county engineer says
the tiling and some OF the plumbing
fixtures will of necessity be brought
from the coast and that it will save
considerable delay and possibly an
appreciable sum of money if the tiling
and plumbing be not included in the
contract but be done by the county.
He also says that cupboards and shell
ing may be left out of the contract as
there are number of them in the old
building which may be utilized in the
administration building.
AS to the work now in progress at
the hospital Engineer Low said that
the contractor expects to have 1t finish
ed before the next meeting of the
board.
Cost Of the new building will be
met from the 100000 fund raised by
direct tar in accordance with the pro,
vision of the act passed at the special
session of the legislature last year.
Arrangement of Rooms
According to the plans in the Office
of the county engineer the room TO
the left on entering is the office and
back of it is located the dispensary
while on the right are the waiting and
reception room, back of which is the
work and utility room. The entry
hall leads to a transverse hall which
runs the length of the building, con
Meeting on the left with the mems
ward. At the extreme right of the
building is the operating room which
connects up with the sterilizing anC
scrub up rooms; in the center is the
X-ray room which connects with the
dark room; then comes store room
and at the right end are the doctors
consulting room and laboratory.