New Britain herald., 1925-02-21
New Bntain General Hospital
 Opens Doors 10 Public Sunday

On the second floor, as one turns 10 the right after reaching the new payilion,is found the chiidren's de- partment. This department is equip ped, not only with steel cribs with high railings, where the youngsters can stand with safety If they so de- sire, but also with playrooms with blackboards, Mother Goose" and moro modern bedtime story pictures on the walls. Toys and picture books arc found in large quantities also.
 The Department Heads
 As the patient goes into q room on the first floor he passes first the office of Miss Maude F. Traver, dlrectress of nurses. Miss Traver is graduate of the Englewood hospi- tai training school at Chicago, H., and prior 10 coming to New Britain has held positions as assistant su- perintendent of the Perth Amboy city hospital in New Jersey, and directress of nurses at the Memorial hospital at Morristown. N. J.
 Just 10 the right of this office as he goes down the corridor, the patient, passes the office of Miss Edna M, Deats, who is instructress in the training school for nurses and assistant to the directress of nurses. Miss Deats is a. graduate of the Memorial hospital in Morristown. N. J.. and last summer took a post graduate course at the Leland-Stan- ford university in California. 4
 On the first floor. known as the female floor, although not necessar- ilytkept exclusively for women, the patient finds a corps of nurses un. der the Jurisdiction of Miss Mildred Burke, 0 graduate of the local train- ing school. The second floor is in charge. of Miss Anna P. Soucey, also a graduate of the New Britain Gen. eral hospital. The third or private room floor is in charge of Miss Mar garet Mahan, another New Britain graduate. '' sI.
 Miss Clara c. Nelson. who also graduated from the Memorial hos pital at Morristown, N. J., is ma- ternity supervisor and has for her assistant, Miss Elizabeth Wright, who graduated from the Lowell, Mass, hospital.
 At night the institution is in charge of Miss Marion Durkee. night supervisor, and q graduate of the St. Alhans. Vermont, hospital.
 Now that the patient is all set- tied, his blood and other tests in- dicating that bis. heart is all right, coagulation is sufficiently rapid and other things favorable. he is pre- pared for an operation and again rides through the corridor to the old building. He is taken by a uni formed orderly into an operating room. There are two operating rooms now and one more will be opened in the near future. The pa- tient's affliction may be fractured bone If such is the case he is taken into a small room equipped with series of mysterious wires glass globes and tubes which re- mind him strongly of radio. Here he is taken in charge by Dr. Arthur s. Grant of Maple Hill. pr. Grant is the hospital roentgenologlst' which translated into English means 'N-ray expert" When pr. Grant IS called upon to explain his profes- sion during the popular introduction stunt of the New Britain Nwanls club of which he is a member, he usually says, We see you as you really are, not as you think you are" Here he takes 8 picture and speed- ily ascertains if there is fracture, a foreign body lodged in the throat or stomach. or learns whatever an X-ray can tell. And even pr. Grant doesn't tell all the N-ray reveals.
 Dr. Grant is graduate of medi- cine in the University of New York and the Bellevue hospital in New York, and a graduate in Xray serv- ice at Greenleaf and Cornell. He is Vice-p president of the New Britain Medical society and saw service in France with the medical corps of the A. F. r.. during the world war.
 In the Operating Room
 Possibly the patient is booked for an operation. lie is turned over to Miss Edith Merrill. operating room supervisor, and q graduate of the New Britain training school. Prop eIly arranged for his operation he finds himself in the hands of Miss Julia Tanning, anaesthetist, and a graduate of the Danbury hospital, Who puts him to sleep in the most approved painless method.
 Here his fayorite surgeon, who might be one of the New Britain men on the operating or consulting staff of the hospital, or some one else he prefers, performs the opera tion, assisted by one or more of the following internes; Dr. Donald J. Me- Gilvray of Nova Scotia, a graduate of the McGill university at Montreal; Dr. John R. Lee, a graduate of Queen college at Kingston, On- tario; Dr. Vincent Mendillo, grad uate of Yale, or pr. Ernest Shoem- yen, a graduate of the Royal uni