Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-13

bed and the third is furnished in
cream enamel with a brass bed. In
all there are IL single and 81 double
patients rooms and in case of emer-
gency many more rooms will be open
ed up.
On this floor is the utility room
equipped with hopper, clinic sink,
a medicine cabinet and dust and
clothes chuteS direct to the basement.
The diet kitchen is next along the
corridor. This is equipped with re-
frigerator, a dumb waiter to the kit
chen, cabinets and an alberine topped
table and sink. There are two large
general toilets on this floor,
One of the first rooms on the sec
ond floor is the patients room fur
nished by the Columbus Guild. Across
the hall is the patients room furnish
ed by Father Martin and called the
st. Anastasia room. Both rooms are
furnished in black walnut. The phar-
macy is on this floor and 1t will be
fully equipped very shortly. Near
the pharmacy sets a neat telephone
switchboard and through this tele-
phones from all parts of the building
may be connected with trunk lines. A
very attractive corridor runs from
this floor to the old Sisters hospital
which will be used for a maternity
hospital. The entrance to the new
structure is through the original hos
pital and along this corridor which is
furnished in wicker and attractive
with ported plants.
Moving along the main corridor on
this floor one comes to the Sisters
community room. the hospital chap
lain's room and the chaplain's dining
! rom.
The Chapel
At the western end on this floor is
| the Chapel. 1t is n large room fur
nished with quartered oak pews with
kneeling benches. At the northern
end is the platform where the altar
will be placed. At the southern end
is the beautiful memorial window
presented by the Waterville chapter,
knights of Columbus. This window
represents Christ blessing a little
child as it lays in its mothers arms.
All, of the windows in the chapel nre
very beautiful. At night q soft glow
from the indirect lights makes the
room very wonderful. Beyond is the
priests sacristy and the work sacris-
J ty.
On the first floor are the nurses
COdtIOOlilS, ll0 lecture room
! equipped with study chairs and the
! nurses dining rooms, also the wom-
ems dining rooms and the mems
dining rooms. At the western end
are the kitchen and necessary store
rooms adjoining. On the northern
! side of the corridor next to the ele-
| vator shaft is the ambulance en-
trance from the outside and fine
Icement driveway leads up to this en-
! trance.
The kitchen Is a model Of modern
! efficiency equipped with machinery
of every design possible to make the
work of the cook and his assistant
efficient. 1t is a large sunshine room
with a red polished brick floor. On
the eastern side are the steamtables,
the cooks table, the bainmarie. In
the center are the gas cooking range
with three divisions and ovens, the
vegetable pressure cooker and q 80
gallon soup and preserving kettle all
run by steam. Also there is an cleo
trio broiler. Four sinks are arranged
around the room, an template sink
TO the heavy utensils, two soap
stone sinks for general work and a
porcelain sink for fine dishes.
Three refrigeratOrs adjoin the kit
Fchen, one for meat, another for vege-
tables and another for dairy prod
ucts. These refrigerators are auto
matically kept at a temperature of
from 1896 degrees fahrenheit. The
ice making plant adjoins the kitchen
and this system is capable of turn
ing out 300 pounds of pure ice daily,
besides pipes from this machine run
to refrigerators in all parts of the
building through brine system. On
the other side adjoining the kitchen
is the Sisters dining room.
Situated about so feet from the
main hospital is the building in
which is housed the laundry, the
helps quarters and the boiler room.
An up to date laundry is installed in
the basement with machinery cap
able of handling more than a days
laundry at time. On the upper
floor is the helps quarters. a wall
dividing the mems and the women's
quarters.
The huge boilers We're made by the
Scanned Boiler CO., of Lowell Mass,
expressly for the hospital, and arc
hung high above the fire boxes
There is a high pressure tank here
to supply hot water for the steriliZ-
ing plants and also hot water tank
to supply the entire building holding
500 gallons.
The smokestack in the rear towers
125 geet above the ground and is IL
feet inside at the base and four feet
at the top.
The switches for the lighting sys-
TEN are located in the boiler room
] and a move is being considered III
put in generators so that the hospital
will have it's own electricity.
The building Is certainly one Of the
finest in New England used for his
pital purposes and is a great credit
to the city of Waterville.