Evening star., 1943-01-19
First Patients Enter
Old tuberculosis
Hospital Here
Renovated Plant to Be
Operated os Gollineer
ConvuIescent Division
Picture on Page B-f,J

The first 20 convalescent patients
were transferred yesterday to the
reopened tubercular hospital at
Fourteenth and Upshur streets NV
climaxing move described by Or.
Edgar A. Bocock. superintendent OF
Gallinger, as a most forward look
ing step and q massive advance,
toward rounding out program that
has been vastly inadequate In the
District"
The renovated plant will be operat-
ed as a division of Gallinger. DR..
Bocock explained that the effect OF
its reopening will be to relieve tenn
porariiy present crowded conditions
at Gallinger and Glenn Dale
sanatoriums. whence majority OF
its occupants will come, and to make
room at these two institutions for
the care of additional patients in
more serious stages of tuberculosis.
On hand for the reopening yes
terday were Commissioners Mason
and Kutz, District Health Oh1cer
George C. Rutland, Budget Director
Walter Fowler and DR.. A. Barkley
Coulter. director OF the District
Heath Departments division Of tu-+
berculosis. They were among A
group of visitors personally con-
Quoted through the plant by DR..
Bocock.
IS on Hospital STAFF.
The hospital is stated by ap-
proximately rs employees. At the
head of these are DR.. G.. B. jenkins,
senior medical officer in charge; Or.
John r. Cain, assistant medical
offcer: DR.. David Leibovici, assistant
medical oficer, and Mrs. Gertrude
T. Haynes, superintendent OF nurses.
DIR. Jenkins formerly headed the
department of anatomy In the
George Washington University med
ical school serving in that capacity
for 20 years. Dr. Cain was connected
formerly with the United States
Public Health Service, and DR.. Lei
bovici was brought to Washington
from the New York Health Depart
ment.
Mrs. Haynes was at one time
obstetrical supervisor at Gallinger
Hospital and later night ,superin-
tendent at Childrens Hospital. She
next served in order as superin-
| tendent of 75-bed hospital at Jas
per, Ala; superintendent Of nurses
at a 400-bed hospital at Spartan
burg, s. c., and superintendent OF
a 75-bed hospital at Lancaster, s. G.
Other employees include an as
sistant superintendent OF nurses.
four supervisors of nursing, 10 grad
uate nurses, 10 nurses aides. 10
maids, 10 orderlies, IA dietary en-
ployes. a director of occupational
1 and recreational therapy, labora-
tory technician, q chief engineer.
three watch engineers, two firemen
and a property and supply ,ofhcer.
Supervisory Rest Home.
The hospital has been set up as .
supervisory rest home for tubercular
patients, DR.. Bocock explained, and
is designed to take care OF patients
who are between the period of actual
medical treatment and the period
j in which they win be released rs
completely cured. IT win be the duty
of the occupational therapist to aid
them in rehabilitation and in pre-
pairing themselves to take up some
occupation by which they can make
living.
The institution has normal
capacity of $50 beds, but DR.. Bocock
said that few more could be added
if necessary. Patients of both sexes
and both white and colored will be
admitted. The average period OF
stay will be three to six months.
While most of the patients viii be
transferred to the Upshur Street
Hospital from Gallinger and Glenn
Dale, a few will be admitted from
outside sources, DR.. Bocock re-
ported.
Building Renovated.
The move to reopen the old plant,
closed in 1887 at the time Glenn
Dale was completed. was started last
spring by Senator OMahoney, Dem
ocrat, of Wyoming. As a result,
Congress appropriated $4,000 for
renovating the building and $1s,5oo
for furniture and furnishings and
then set up an operating budget
estimated to cover the period from
October l until the end Of the pres
ent fiscal period.
Grounds around the building total
between five and six acres and ex-
tend over an entire block between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth and
Upshur and Allison streets. In ad-
dition to the main hospital, the
plant includes laboratory and
nurses home.
The main building was renovate
from top to bottom. On the first
floor are two wards of Is beds each:
on the second. two wards of "a beds
each; on the third, two wards of %
beds each and large occupational
therapy room, and on the fourth a
ward of Is beds. Each ward has a
lounge for recreational purposes ad-
jacent to the bed space.