New-York tribune., 1922-09-29
New Fifth Ave.
Hospital Ready
ForOccupancy
Building Committee Turns
lO-Story Structure Over
TO Trustees; Ceremony
Followed by Inspection
Has $40 Private Rooms
All ''Outside''; Drug Odors
Avoided by Ventilation;
Sum Parlors Face Park


The Fifth Avenue Hospital on Fiftn
Avenue between 105th and I06th
streets, the 340 private rooms Of which
are TO be rented at moderate rates,
was turned over to tho board of trus-
tees and medical staff yesterday. r.
Frank Manville made the presentation
speech as chairman of the building
committee. The speech Of acceptance
was made by DR.. Wiley L. Woodbury.,
director Of the hospital.
After the ceremony n reception com.
mittee conducted those present through
the building It occupies the entire
block, and its unique design makes all
Of its $40 private rooms Outside. ."
Each has its own bath
The rooms are eight and one half or
nine feet wide and sixteen feet long.
They are decorated and furnished in
French grey, bufFs and tans and every
effort has been made to restrain the
harsh efficiency of white enamel and
tiles which characterize mogt hospita g.
in-the nervous. energetic, live-iife-
The effort has been successful. The
rooms resemble those of hotel rather
than those Of the ordinary hospital.
Even the hospital odor Of disinfectants
and other drugs which permcates most
such institutions inpradicahly will not
be present in the Fifth Avenue Hospi-
tai, its builders say, the ventilation
system having been carefully devised
with view to eliminating II.
Ten-Story Building
The building is ten stories high, and
most Of the ,oors have fftyfour rooms.
The kitchens are in the basement, and
food is sent directly TO each patien.'s
room on steam tables. The second hoor
is to be used by the Laura franklin
Delano Foundation, and will be devoted
exclusively to the care Of children. 1t
hns normal capacity Of seventy-fve
beds, which may be expanded TO 100
beds.
The Laura Franklin Hospital and tho
Hehnemann Hospital are combined in
the new institution.
On the sixth floor il a maternity
department, the various rooms OF which
have been made virtually soundproof
by special construction. The scientific
department, including seven operating
rooms, occupies the eighth floor. The
operating rooms deAed disguise, but
the anasthetizing rooms adjoining are
furnished as reception rooms, with
rugs, curtains, wooden furniture and
tinted walls.
There are special suites for the
physicians attaGhed 10 the nospita4 IN
which they may receive private pa
tients, enabling them to economize
time and giving the patients who call
on them there tho benefit Of the scien-
titic equipment II the hospital.
Sun Parlors Front Park
The sun parlors, of which there are
several, overlook Central Park. The
furniture in them Is painted in the
gayest colors.-
"The enterprise represents an outlay
of $3,3o0900," said Mr.. Manville yes
terday, "of which we have received by
subscriptions and the sale of old prop
erty $4,000 900. Making an allowance
for a considerable sum yet to be paid
on ole subscriptions. we find ourselves
with at least $t,000,00o required TO
meet NIL obligations and put the build
ing free"
Four thousand, nine hundred persons
subscribed to the building fund. The
trustees and members of the medical
staff voted unanimously not 30 attempt
TO raise the remaining money neees-
sary by any intensive campaign, but to
obtain it by private subscription.
The architects are York & Sawyer
and the builders Mare Eidlitz g. Sons.