Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-23


Belfast, has given thousands of dol
lars to the pr0Jext and also equipped
the hospital with as fine an X-raS
outfit as can be bought. Mrs. White
! has furnished the reception room and
gave $4,000 to support free bed for
! citizens Of Northport. Many other
summer residents of Northport, Bel
: fast and Islesboro. have given largely
| to build and equip the new hospital.
/ Mrs. Thomas +. Shea. wife Of the
| wcll known actor. a former Belfast
! woman and with Mr.. Shea. a sum
nlcr resident OF Northport has fur
nished and beautified a children's
ward of two beds, dainty with its
| baby pictures. Its blue curtains with
/ quaint little figures. even to the
%nocker on the door. a child reach
| ing for the latch. This ward Is In.
memory Of the two children Of Mr..
and Mrs. Shea, who died in infancy
| The room xhich was occupied by
! Mrs Charles Bradbury's mother. the
late Mrs. Hannah Cottrell- Glover, as
a bedroom. has been furni-hed by Mrs.
Bradbury in Mrs. Glover's memory
and one across the hall by Charles
| Bradbury in memory of his father,
the late Judge James Bradbury. Uni
| ted States Senator from Maine, many
years ago.
Other memorial rooms have been or
will be furnished, one Of which will
| be known as the Neighborhood room,
furnished by people living In the vic
| unity of the institution.
On the first floor with the entrance
on the south side, is convenient
vestibule on either side Of which are
offices and reception room. The SUI
perntendent nurse will have .pri-
/ vate room and bath on this floor, the
! N-ray room. developing room. labra-
tory, nurses dining room, kitchen,
/ linen closets etc. and some 15 or
more beds, in private rooms or wards
! are also found on this floor. The
I ambulance entrance is directly OPP
! posite the elevator, the latter being
the first and only passenger elevator
in Waldo county. A 120 foot corri-
Cor runs east and west through the
building, heavy doors shutting off
the kitchen and nurses dining room
from the wards.
On the second floor is maternity
ward, with several beds, delivery
room and fondling room, equipped
with every modern convenience.
There are - or IS beds on this floor
in private rooms and wards of two,
three and four beds. Linen closets
baths, etc.
On the third or top floor is a large
light airy operating room, with ev-
erything of the very latest type. All
the tables, stretchers and every bed
in the hospital are on rubber tired
wheels and everything is the last
word in modern apparatus. A COM
modious steriliZing room is situated
OH this floor and surgeons room
and lavatory. On this floor are the
nurses rooms and living room, shut
off from the other part of the hospi-
/, tai by heavy doors and the floors in
| the entire building are sound proof
On each floor is q diet kitchen, and
throughout the lighting and plumb
| ing is the best that can be had.
/ In addition to the free bed for
Ncrthport. supported by Mrs. Nor
man H. White of Brookline, other
free beds will be maintained by in
dividuals or groups.
! This institution Will be the only one
| iii this section to give radium treat
! mcnt and will have q special nurse
for this and for E-ray work. 1t will
maintain nurses training school
which will have affiliations with
/ In.
New York city.
| In the basement is the laundry and
drying room, electrically equipped,
and the heating plant, store rooms.
7 etc
/ Dr. Edwin S. Steese of New York
an eye specialist. and partner, DR..
| John Weeks, will give week of free
7 clinics each summer in this hospi-
tai. Dr. Steese Is q summer resident
OF Northport and much interested in
the new institution. and has prom
iscd to devote one week Of his vaca-
ton, each season, to this work.
number of other eminent specialists
and surgcons who summer in the
vicinity, it is believed will do like
wise.
, The hospital has been founded en-
TREY by gifts, large and small, and
il will be in deed as in name Mem
orial to many who have gone. 1t is
held in perpetuity by the trustees,
! their successors to be appointed by
| the Supreme Judicial Court of the
! State of Maine. 1t is in every sense
for the use of the public, subject
only to the approval of the board OF
trustees and the physician in charge.
The Massachusetts General hospital
is founded largely upon these lines.
| This hospital, has in fact. a much
larger scope than the usual general
hospital, because it can and will take
patients from any city and town
which may desire to send patients
here, and physicians of repute from
other cities may come here and OPP
crate on citizens living in Belfast.
should such surgeons special service
be required.
The free clinics and charity work
will be done L. in accordance with
funds received for the purpose and
free beds for various towns will be
maintained as fast as such towns
render their support. All freed beds
and charity work will be given at ac-
tual cost.
Tho new hoSnitaI will be opened