Evening star., 1923-01-21
REDOUBLE EFFORTS
IN: HOSPITAL DRIVE
campaignefs Determined to
Rea Up Bic Total by
Next Rally.
REPORT $4,000 so FAR
Thousands of Gifts, Large and
Small, Needed for $780,
0C0 Fund.

Determined to roll up big total
by the time they assemble at their
next rally at the City Club tomorrow
hsEht, tSe ccmpaigners for Garfield
Hospstai are p2tting forth every ef-
fort to double the $4,000 previously
reported.
Thousands of gifts. large and small.
arc needed, the committee states, to
make up the 100000 required to
erect the nurses home and the new
central building, q The fact that there
are very few vacant rooms in any of
the citys hospitals is pointed to as
evidence of the need of larger facili-
ties and especially OF more private
rooms at moderate prices. The sew
enty-eight additional rooms in the
central building will enable Garfield
Hospital. il is estimated, to care for
1000 more patients a year and to give
them more than 10000 days care.
This substantial increase in the city's
hospital capacity is urgently needed
now, the committee states, but can
not be provided unless sufficient funds
are subscribed to erect the new
buildings, the hospital having no sur
plus for new construction.
Installs Larger Laboratories.
In line with its policy of enlarg-
ing and Improving its facilities for
the diagnosis as well as the treat
ment of disease. GARFIELD Hospital
has just completed the installation of
its larger clinical laboratories. Com
prising the meteorological laboraI
tory. for the examination of bacteria
and the study of germ diseases: the
pathological, for the examination of
tumors and tissues and work con-
cerned with pathology: the serolog-.
ical, which includes the various blood
tests. and the netabolism laboratory.
THIS now constitutes, IL is stated. one
of the most modern and best equipped
Departments of the kind in this sec
tion. DR.. J. w. Lindsay is director
OF the laboratories. with DR.. E. c.
Rice and DR.. NJ A. SeIinger as asso-
ciates and Miss CSrnelia Higgins
technician.
One of the most interesting features
is the metabolism laboratory. which
makes special study of nutrition, and
OF soltre and other thyroid diseases. I'm
portant discoveries in regard to the
process OF nutrition, the growth of the
the thyroid gland have been made in
recent years through the study of meta
poilsnl. TO which the Garfield iahorator-
les are devoting considerable attention
Latest-Type Appsratus.
The latest type of oxygen apparatus
mas been installed, which takes account
OF poth the oxygen conGume1 and the
waste products eliminated. analysis be-
ing made of the air both before and
hraafhInU
sumed. the amount of heat generated by
the body can be estimated, which is
important in the detection of various
diseases. The average amount of oxy-
Sens-coasansed Is approximately aaa to
FOB cubic centimeters, about a haif-pint
per minute. it is said, though this varies
with the size and the age Of the paxent
and his state Of health.
How much heat does the AVERAGE
PERSONS body generate?" Or. sL!pdsdy
was asked
That varies considerable he said.
depending on the size of the body. age
and other conditions, bat &c average
normal, when at rest, IS about 500
calories a day. Under exertiun, when a
person is at work. or when disease
or more"
The body may be readiiys compared
with a furnace, in which combustion is
constantly taking place." Dr.. Lindsay
said. speaking OF the processes of meta
bolism. I'm the case OF the furnace.
fuel is being continually added and con-
sumed In the body there is continual
production, destruction and repla cement
OF tissues or fuel. The process which
we call combustion in the fire, We term
metabolism in the hospital and labora-
tory.
Proceeds Mt Definite Rate.
with the orderly development of
the nody and the proper carrying out
OF its work which We recognize as
normal, combustion or meta bolism
proceeds at certain definite rate with
a definite rate Of heat production. In
certain diseases. particularly those re-
lated to the thyroid gland, famiiiarly
busion or metabolism is altered from
the normal, and it is by the recognition
OF this change that the laboratory
has recently been able to render val
liable aid in the separation ct this
class of conditions from others hav-
pearance, and in controlling the treat
ment of disease in which disturbed
metabolism Is found"
Speaking of the work Of the lahora-
tories, DR.. Lindsay said: Many of the
most striking advances recently ae-
complished in medicine have been in
those departments with which the
clinical laboratories are concerned. In
these laboratories are made the, daily
routine blood and chemical examlna-
tions necessary in the study of near
ly every dicence and in the protection
Of the health of the individual and
that of the community. and also the
more elaborate special. tests, which
serve to establish the identity of
many conditions the diagnosis of
which might otherwise be impossible.
To meet these increasing demands
1fnan the laboratories. Garfieid Hos
pital has added large space and the
best in equipment making possible
the application of the newest methods
of chemical and sociological examtna-
tioRs. and investigations in the 1eld of
m etabolism."
, The museum and library now being
installed are expected to be partieu-
larly halpful to physicians who dc.
sire to make use of the material
available in the pathological depart
ment,