The Washington times., 1925-10-03
Ne " ADDITION
To HOSPITAL
PROPOSED
Building Will Be Used for Ma
ternity cases-Power Plant
and Laundry Planned

to be made to the Sibley Memorial
| Hospital, North Capitol, NJ and
Pierce streets, in accordance with
drawings and specifications pre-
pared by the Ballinger Company
architects and engineers, Philadel-
phia and New York The new
building will be used for maternity
| purposes and is being erected under
the care of the board of hospitals,
| homes and deaconess work of the
| Methodist Episcopal Church.
Contract for the building work
has been awarded to Charles H.
Tompkins Company. Work will be
started at once and completed
April Is, 1926.
1t will be in the shape of the
letter IT. have four stories and
basement and be located along
Pierce street, adjoining and com
municating with the present build
ing known as Robinson Hall. The
main building will be 42x142 feet
eight inches and the wing 42x5T
feet four inches.
The new buildings are designed
to harmonic in architecture with
the existing buildings, the walls
being Of face brick with limestone
trimmings and brick pattern orna-
ment. The floors, columns and
roof are of reinforced concrete and
the partitions of tile and gypsum
block, rendering the building fire.
proof throughout. There will be, a
brick enclosed stairway and an ex-
each story with the adjoining build
ing, thus providing ample means of
communication and exit.
The new building will accommo-
date one hundred two (102) beds and
he provided with the latest type of
hospital equipment, making it one
of the largest an best equipped
buildings of it's kind in the East.
In the basement will be located
the dieticians' department and Of
flee, dining rooms for nurses and
staff. kitchen, refrigerator and
storage rooms. Space will also be
provided in this portion of the build
ing for the disinfecting department,
the isolation department and the
morgue.
The first floor will contain thirty
two (32) beds for the use Of ward
patients. The wards range from
semi-private type with two beds
each to rooms with nine beds. On
this floor also are the laboratory
separate nurses rooms and utility
room.
There is a total of seventy (7O
beds in private rooms on the Sec
ond and third floors some with and
some without private toilets, also
semi-private rooms and one nine
l9 bed ward, a diet kitchen and
nurses and utility rooms. Nurseries
have been omitted from these floors
in order to provide greater quiet
ness and prevent annoyance to
patients.
On the fourth floor there will be
a large nursery with provision for
seventy-two az cribs, including a
high temperature room for deli
cate babies and isolation room for
sick babies. This floor also con-
tains four delivery rooms, nurses
work room with steriliZing room adj
joining, also rooms for doctors ana
interns; linen and sewing rooms
are also provided on this floor. The
Sibley Guild sewing room and the
Guild offices are located in this
story adjacent to Robinson Hall.
Two passenger elevators OF
proper size for wheel beds will be
installed, communicating with all
stories.
A feature of the new hospital
will be the installation of dumb
walters and facilities for prepare
ton of trays and serving food to
the patients under what is known
as the Bacon system. By this
new system every tray is prepared
in the kitchen or serving room ad-
Joining the kitchen under the super
of a dietician with as
sistants working at a table, each
preparing four trays at one time.
The trays as prepared are placed
upon automatic high speed dumb
walters. which convey them to the
proper floor where the nurses are
waiting to receive them and de.
liver them to the patients. All
special diets are prepared before
or after the standard full diets.
This system is being used very sue
cessfully in most modern hospitals.
Compete modern plumbing. heat
ing electrical, elevator, laundry,
Kitchen and steriliZing equipment
will be installed, including blanket
warming closets.
A new two-stOry power house and
laundry building forty-siX feet by
fifty-seVen feet will be erected ad-
Joining the new maternity building.
II will be provided with a radial
brick chimney four feet in diameter
by ninety-one feet high. It's equip
ment will consist of two high pres
sure boilerS, two engine and genera
tor units, With steam piping, pump
and auXiliaries, refrigerating and
ice making equipment, and laundry