Evening star., 1939-07-18
New Buildings
Rise al Jail
And Ga||inger
$2,225,000 Program
Under Way to
Reduce Crowding

Long-range planning by the Dis
trict government and ready
amount Of P. w. A. money are
working transformation in the
area of Gallinger Hospital and the
District Jail.
A building program totaling more
than $2,225,0 900 is under way there.
Steam shovels are excavating at
three or four sites, steel workers are
busily engaged in fitting up the
framework of one building, and at
others, in various stages of compile
ton, the sound of the hammer. the
saw and the drill break the quiet of
the hospital zone.
New hospital and Jail buildings
are designed to relieve overcrowded
conditions and provided additional
facilities for these District institu-
tions.
Two new wards are under con-
struction at the hospital, which will
provide 500 additional beds. An ad-
dition is being erected to the nurses
home and central heating plant ls
under construction to serve the hos
pital and other District buildings in
the neighborhood.
Jail Addition Under Wav.
A large addition to the iajl Is
under way now, and the new Dis
trlct Morgue building, replacing the
OLD structure situated at the foot Of
seventh street S.W., is nearly half
completed.
One OF the hospital buildings.
known as Ward No. 3. and the CEN
tral heating plant are being con-
structed under one contract calling
Tor the expenditure of sso7 1851. The
hospital ward, as we'll as other
ouliolngs, is in keeping with the
architecture of the existing s.ruc-
lures. 1t will be six stories. of brick
ana stone, and when completed will
provide 300 beds quarters for the
A-ray department. instruction and
conference rooms and facilities for
diagnosis and treatment of all forms
OF disease
Both the hospital ward and the
heaung plant are now IA per cent
completed. The schedule calls for
the completion of the hospital ward
by May II, 1910, and the heating
/ plant by March 18 1910.
/ The second ward building. also
OF SIX stories and of 2OO-bed ca
paclty, will be for tuberculosis pa
tlents. These patients are now
housed in old, frame buildings which
are not fire resistant The cost Of
this ward, which will take care Of
the present average of ITS tubercu-
losls patients at Gallinger, is
s4OO,082. 1t is scheduled for COM
pletion by May 80. 1910.
Quarters for so Nurses.
The addition to the nurses home
is 81 per cent completed. The build
ing is costing s80,190, and is sched-
uled for completion September s,
1899. 1t will provide quarters for
approximately so nurses.
In addition to these expenditures.
the District has an additional con-
tract calling for an expenditure of
$4,000 to remodel the sixth floor of
the present Ward Building No. 4.
This floor, which now houses operat-
ing and X-ray rooms, will be con-
verted into operating rooms after
the third ward building is COM
pleted and the X-ray equipment is
transferred into it.
The additions to the Jail will pro-
vide a capacity for 700 prisoners.
These improvements are being
financed by regular District funds
and P. w. A. project. An expendi-
ture Of S250000 out of District funds
has been authorized for a Jail hos
pltal and an administration build.
ing. Half of this sum was appro-
prlated a year ago, and the re-
mainder is in the new District ap-
preparation bill
In addition, a 1912 900 P. w. A.
project will provide two new cell
blocks, remodeling of existing wings
and other improvements in the
building. The work is just getting
under way. The cell blocks are
scheduled for completion by De-
cember 9, 1889, and the whole prof.
ect by July 6. 1940
The new morgue, an $85 1896 prof.
ect, is now As per cent completed.
1t is scheduled for completion Sep
tember 26, 1899. The new building.
a tWo-story structure, will provide
quarters for the District coroner, q
hearing room, refrigeration room,
autopsy facilities and small mu-
scum.