The Pulaskian., 1921-03-17
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and hanging on the wall of the yisi tors room now. Mrs. Della Cantrell is head nurse and in charge of the pupils. She Is one of the finest busi ness women and executives known amongst nurses. There are two as sistant physicians and two interns Clinics are given regularly al the hospital and the operating room is provided with an amphitheater of seats arranged in a tier, one above the other, for students. It is well lighted and beautifully tiled and is one of the best operating rooms in lhe state. The hospital has the best X-ray machine in the entire South. Once this was also the second best county hospital in the entire United States, being only outclassed by the Cook county hospital at Chicago.
 On all sides can be seen the new improvements made by Dr. Mason under the present County Judge, Mir, Mover, since January first, and many more are under way, and the hospital has already been placed in a perfectly sanitary condition and the musty smells usually found in such old buildings is absent, and the air is as pure and sweet as in any home in the city. To begin with the buildings are situated on top of a high hill southwest of the city, where plenty of pure air is to be had.
 The institution was founded in 1890 under the jurisdiction of Judge Hill, and Dr. Hing was the first su- perintendent The south building was erected in 1891 by Judge Kay anaugh. Dr. Mason was assistant physician here in 1900, 1907 and 1908, since when he has been at the Confederate Veterans Home twelve years. On the lower floor of this building Is the drug, X-ray, labora- tory, emergency, nurses lecture, a large ward, and several individual rooms. Across the south end upstairs and down are three large porches, 1t being a three-story building. These will be wired in for sleeping porches. The lower floor is ward l for men. Second floor Is ward 2 for women. Third floor is ward 3 for negroes. In the nurses lecture room is the finest mounted skull I ever saw. It is very white and very thick, being the skull of negro. The diet kitch- en is on the second floor.
 Next we visited the Administration building, commencing at the top or third floor. On this floor is the op- erating room, sterilizing room, physi- cinas' wash room. Every ward has its own bath and toilet room. The second floor is the superintendent s private apartment. Mrs. Mason is matron and she looks as though the change of climate has been beneficial to her, appearing as radiant as a young girl.
 The first floor has two dining rooms, reception room for visitors, and office.
 North of the Administration build ing is wards four and five, First floor is ward 4 for old men, with their dining room. Second floor is ward 5 for old ladies. Each ward has its dining room on same floor with it. Back of ward five is ward for mental cases. Sewing and clothes room Is on first floor of this build ing.
 Back of wards four and five is a brick building containing wards 8, and 10. Eight is the mental ward for men, nine is colored mental ward and ten is for old negro women Cottage No. Il is for old negro men : and Cottage No. l2 is for tuberculal cases. There Is no other hospital in the state which takes care of tuber eular cases in the last stages, and vel that Is the dangerous stage so far as the public Is concerned. In the earlier stages many of the patients do no : cough and spit enough to cause any \ danger of infecting others, but it i. in the last stages that they cough anc spit all the time, and that Is where the contagion spreads from. Ont old negro in this cottage was founc in the last stages of consumption il the rear of eolored restaurant dowl town. There is no telling how man, hundreds of people have been giver the dread disease because of thi, mans neglect. Certainly it behoove. | the state of Arkansas to lose no tim, in looking after this class of pa | tients.
 Il In the rear of the Admin;strat;o,