Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
.S|BLEY HOSPITAL
|. HAS NEW FEATURES
Late improvements Claimed
to Put Infirmary in Capt..
tai Forefront.

sibley Memorial Hospital, after an eX-
tensive f1ve-year improvement program,
adding both structurally and scientific
ally to the character of the institution,
Is now being classed in medical circles
here as being in the forefront Of Wash
ington hospitals.
Flanked by q four-story annex,
heightened by the addition of modern
lied sixth and seventh floors and based
on q reassuringly "homelike" ground
floor, the hospital has been renovated
to meet the strides in medical science,
said DR.. Charles Cole. president Of the
institution.
Waiting Room Is Homelike.
A ground floor waiting room, dis
pensing with the impersonal metallic
character of the usual hospital en-
trance, Is furnished as living room.
The impression is as near an approx
nation Of home" as q hospital can
produce. Adjoining this room are the
Offices of DIR. Cole.
A new X-ray department completes
the construction changes on the first
floor, formerly occupied entirely by hos
pital wards.
On the new seventh floor the operat-
ing department illustrates o striking
change in equipment. The usual mo-
notony Of blank, white walls inside Is
relieved by paneling of cool green tile.
This interior scheme Is uniform
throughout the floor.
The new operating department COM
prises four major operating rooms, two
minor operating rooms, plaster room,
an anesthesia room, nurses work
room, labratory and a doctors rest
room, arranged as den.
New Floors Prevent Explosion.
The air-cooling and ventilating system
in this department has met with praise
from surgeons. The well regulated air.
cooling system Is said to be q forward
step, and as yet has not been adopted
by any other American hospital.
Another innovation in the operating
department Is the lighting method. A
group of electric lights, representing
1000 candlepower, arranged behind a
ceiling glass, as focused on the oper-
ating table. It also removes deceptive
lighting and shadows.
A third feature of the operating de-
partment, designed to prevent gas ex-
ploston, are copper-grounded floors.
Explosions from static electricity, al
ways a possibility where steel instru-
ments and anesthetic gas are used, have
been wholly precluded, hospital attend
ants pointed out.
Inc SlAIL 1lOOT WAS IuIUlSIleO Dy Tile
Woman's Guild of Sibley Hospital and
presents an advance in hospital con-
venience. Nineteen rooms are furnished
with wood furniture, the old metal
bed being outlawed as an Anticipated
servant"
ChiIdren's Ward Attractive.
The sixth floor addition, with the
four-story annex, gives Sibley Hospital
snare for 940 beds doubling housing
accommodations of the original build
ing.
The fifth floor, formerly occupied by
large, bare wards, has been divided
into smaller wards of two to five beds.
The children's ward, with play room
decked with miniature furniture, toys
and Mother Goose wall rhymes, Is a
department of an aspect pleasing to
young folks. The maternity ward in
the annex is the largest ward of its
kind in the city. Having reported 1900
births on its list last year. this ward
expects to go considerably beyond that
figure this year.