Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
NEW WING DOUBLES
SIZE OF HOSPITAL
$4,000 Addition to Homeo-
pathiC Institution to Be
Opened Tuesday.

With the opening of the new two.
story, 5000 wing of the Homeo
pathic Hospital. Kirby and n streets
northwest, on Tuesday afternoon, the
capacity of the institution will be
doubled, and the scope of the work
will be extensively broadened.
A reception, at which the women s
board, members of the staff and board
of trustees will be hosts, will mark
the formal opening of the wing to the
public, Tuesday afternoon.
Patients, however, will not be taken
in the new wing for two or three
weeks. as it has not been completely
furnished and not all of the equip
ment necessary for it's operation has
been installed.
The new building, which fronts on
n street, has not been named. 1t has
been built from an accumulation of
endowmentS and gifts received by the
hospital during the past 10 years. Its
cost, when completely furnished and
equipped, is expected to be about $780,
600.
Space Has Been Lacking.
Complete endowment of the beds in
the new wing is sought by the Of
f1cials of the hospital to permit the
operation of a free ward for men and
women. Heretofore the hospital has
a free ward, and there has for years
been a regular waiting list of pa
tents.
The building, of brick construction.
to harmonic with the older structure
of the hospital, will allow the accept
ance of approximately 1000 patients
yearly, whereas last year only 1000
patients were treated there.
1t will contain, when fully equip
ped and furnished, so beds, 20 of them
in private rooms. Its opening relieves
the old building of its obstetrical de-
partment and permits the establish
ment of another operating room and a
general expansion of quarters in the
old building.
The principal feature of the new
wing is the nursery, endowed by
Mrs. Josephine Gedney of this city.
25 Beds in Nursery.
The nursery, with the most up-to-
date equipment obtainable, will con-
tain % beds for infants. These beds
will be the new-style bassinets and
will replace the old racks upon which
the newborn infants have formerly
been placed. Showers, the latest i'm
provement in equipment for bathing
babies at hospitals, have been in
stalled.
bnuO"nl6HIS nave DeeH I0CelNeu lOI
many of the beds in the new wing.
The entire second floor, except for
the nursery, has been endowed as a
memorial to DR.. H. H. HawXhurst by
r.any of his patients.
Beds on the first floor have been
endowed as memorials to DR.. t. L.
Mcdonald, who for about 25 years
was surgeon-in-chief of the hospital.
The basement is being fitted as a
mems and women'S ward. Provided
endowments to maintain these can
be secured, these wards will be free.
Miss E. NJ. Meurer, superintendent of
tEa hospital, sets the amount neces-
sary for the endowment of each bed
at between $400 and $500. In any
case it is announced, the ward space
in the basement will be open to pa
tients at the lowest possible cost.
In the basement also will be main
tanned an extension Of the free clinic
which has for some time been a part
of the work of the hospital.
"A Physicians on Staff.
The institution here is the central
hospital of the Homeopathi AsSocia-
ton of America. 1t was established
IN 1881. 1t now has a staff of %
homeopathic physicians ana a similar
number of allopathic physicians.
Inferno service, with both medical
and surgical students, has been and
will continue to be maintained. There
is a staff of q student nurses and
graduates. In September, a large
class of student nurses, between 10
and Is, will be admitted.
The hospital, throughout, has Eeen
equipped with signal lights, replac-
ing the old bell system, which allows
more quiet.
A separate refrigerating plant, re-
Gently installed, is another feature
which has brought the institution up
TO date.