The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1936, Page 6

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6 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1936. Medical Clinic Is La : inn Modern Trend: Has Latest of 7% and Arrangement Conveniences Word = for- complete Tuding diagnosis of the only hine in Alaska. At rridor toward Main ny with treatment rooms. Doctors' Library A large doctors’ library is situat- ed behind the waiting room between violet basal-met- | the| ultra- | In ¢ nnouncing the public open waiting he control de'k the doctors’ apartments and offices of au Modical and Sur- to comm at v lony corvidor This library is accessible to the| gl Boctors Council, Car- extendir length of t cond doctors from either side, without t and Whitehead present | Strect Seward Street sides of disturbing the rest of the -clinic. It to city a large the All offices and labora- is naturally lighted by the same| city r, complete in torics, recovery rooms and wash- ckylight that lights the waiting mode went required for the rocms open directly onto this cor- room. Included in its equipment nost efficient practice of medicine ridor. Facing on Second Street besides medical treatises, a file room and surgery are individual offices for each and complete case record system. A sclf-complete unit, convenient- of the doctors, six in all, with in- Between the control desk and the 1y loc heart of dividual reception rooms for each.|doctors' corridor, and accessible to on the second floor of the At the nd and Sewerd Street both, are files for the records of stein Building, the Clinic is ap- corner is the operating room for all current cases proached through the newly altered minor operations, The operating Overlooking the harbor on the cntrance lobby of the building on room is tile’ floored and wainscoat-' Southward side of the second floor Seward Streef. The Iobby, modern ed in white, with white plaster|and approached either from the in aspect, finished in horizontal ceiling. Just off the operating room Clinic by way of the library, or paneling of Celotex with chronium is the surgeon’s washup and show- without entering the Clinic proper, stripping, gives a ss to the sec- er room, also tile. Along the by a hallway off the entrance cor- ond floor Clinic either by stairway ard Street front are three recove dor are two three-room complete- or elevator. rooms for patient Although no 1y modern apartments, to6 be occu- On reaching the second floor the hospital service accommodations Pied by Doctors Council and Car- visitor faces upon a wide corridor are intended to en by the ter and their families. The apart-) at the end of which is the Clinic Clinic, short recovery periods will ments have oak floors and Celotex| reception room. The large well- be neces for e 1 - finished walls, modern lighting fix- lighted reception room is separated ticn and the recover tures, tile baths with tub showers from the waiting' room and the Provided for that purpose. Be- and electric kitchens. A laundry rest of the Clinic by the control tween the recovery rooms and the room is convenient to both. A third desk, where is seated the receiving SUTgry is a murse Station for the apartment, accupied by Dr. Williams, nurse who interviews all those en- accommodation of a resident nurse located on the second floor oppo. tering and communicates with all When needed, also for the use of Site the elevator and facing on Sew- the staff and all the offices through the nurses when not busy ard ‘Slu-vf It is equipped simila a special switchboard, h d Laboratories to the others. burses all incoming calls as Wwell. scross the long corridor from Lincleum Covered Floors The waiting room is situated in the the doctors' offices and - grouped Extra heavy linoleum covering is exatt center of the Clinic and gives next to the waiting room are three used throughout the Clinic. All access to all its different sections oratories. An y laboratory W2lls, excepting laboratories, are of Both the reception room and the yith view room and dark room. The CCloteX, Kalsomined in the recep- waiting room are designed in the y_yay laboratory painted with tion and waiting rooms and in the horizontal modern style, finished in gpecial “ruby-light” paint mixture library, painted in the offices and Celot trimmed ‘with ‘horizontal _geveloped purposely to give the Celotex was sel- stainless steel strips. The waiting pest obtainable light for x-ray. All. ected as suitable wall ma- room is naturally lighted by a large walls and the ceiling of the x-ray terial be > of its sound deaden- ing qualities and its lighter we'ght new skyslight covering most of the Japoratory are lead-lined to confine area the rays. Other laboratories are 31}:‘ latest type of mudun‘w lighting A short corridor leads off the equipped to render all analysis nec- [IXtures are used throughout. Special washup sinks are used in VENETIAN BLINDS will add immeuasutably to (‘é (h'nrm and distinction of your home. They add beauty and utility and dress up your windows as nothing else can . . . and afford you - acy without shut&ng * off the light. CELOTEX The ideal building material for all types of con- struction. Old hous are made more attractive and comfortable and new iuxmes insulated with CELOTEX are warmer and quieter. Both CELOTEX tributed toward AND SURGICAL CLIN and VENTIAN BLINDS have con- making the JUNEAU VIC one of the BEST equipped MEDICAL and MOST MODERN institutions in the West. We ngmtuldle. and extend our best wishes to the Ph this clinic available, Juneau-Young Hardware Co icians and Surgecns of Juneau who have made These sinks have elbow control of the water taps that in the surgeon's washup ad- joining the operating room having knee control as well The Clinic accommodations, de- signed by H. B. Foss Company Juneau, are declared by all who sgen them to be outstanding in their convenience and practical layout, their attractive appearance and their completeness. To a well planned arrangement and scientific modern design has been added complete latest type professional and scien- tific equipment to make the Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic a cen- ter for the finest medical treat- ment the washrooms. 3 L PORTER BACK FROM PROSPECTING TRIP James C. Porter, Petersburg for old-time Alaskan, his home aboard the Alaska after a resident of a prospecting trip of several weeks which took him to the upper waters of Enchantment Bay and Yakutat Bay and to the headwaters of Nu- natak and Russell Fiord glacier re- glon near Hogan's Bluff. | Porter mineral standpoint, with a plenti- |ful supply of game to be had. He expects to return to further pros- many years and an is returning to reports that he covered a very interesting country from a pect that part of the country next | Spring. | e Lode and piacer location notices mr sale at Thn I:.mp|re offlce. “Congratulations” JUNEAU MEDICAL and SURGICAL CLINIC H. B. FOSS CO. ARCHITECTS Juneau Alaska T N R RO R DR W. W, Left to right abeve are the four Juneau doctors whe conceived and founded the Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic; threugh the new instituticn for the service of the Territery. talents Dr. W. M. Whitehead. CLINIC DENTIST Dr. R. H. Williams, with offices in connection the Juneau Med gical Clinic. DR, WILLIAMS HAS LICENSES, | FOUR SEGTIUNS Dentist Equipped with Most Modern Office Occupying offices and working in cooperation with, though mnot a| on first coming to Alaska, Dr. member of the Juneau Medical and i ' . _Carter was stationed in Tanana, Surgical Clinic, is Dr. R. H. Wil- 2 liams, Dentist. Dr. Williams adds to the service of the Clinic many years' experience in dentistry and an office equipped in line with the other departments All the latest dental|Government Hospital here. He re- to, tained his post in the Government of the Clinic. office apparatus, dental X-ray makes Dr. suite a worthy companion of other Clinic branches with modern facilities. The Ritter Dental X-ray installed{ its larger; brother in the X-ray laboratory the | having taken care of Dr. Coun very finest in its type of equipment; fully shock-proof and so construet- ed as to give the greatest utility. graduate North Pacific College of Portland, After graduation, he practiced two years in Idaho, at Pocatello and Mackay, | Establish- Building. by Dr. Williams is, like Dr. Willlams is a Oregon in the class of 1924, before coming to Ahska to PHONE 6 COUNCIL Denti: 5 and Sur- in Cl.mc Fully complete even Williams’ the their of | CONGRATULATIONS BEST WISHES JUNEAU MEDICAL and SURGICAL CLINIC Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. DR. C. C. ng his offices in Skagway, Alaska, | {Dr. Williams for six years served that city and the surrounding sec- tions of Alaska and the Yukon from Haines and Chilkoot Barracks, tak- i in Whitehorse, Atlin, Carcross and other points in the Yukon area | and Northern British Columbia. Dr. Willlams came to Juneau four vears ago to establish practice, re- ining here ever since. He is li- censed in Idaho, Yukon Territory, British Columbia and Alaska. D DR, CARTER ; WITHGUVT-\‘ o hnterPrlvate ‘ Practice Here rter is a graduate n" cc d\ Medical School of the Ln'vu-( of Oregon, 1928. After| the City Hos-{ {pital, Dr. Carter a company surgeon for the Weyerhauser Tim- ber Co., at the company’s mill and camp at Snoqualmie Falls, Wash- Jington. He was with that company until 1932, when he entered the Bu- {reau of Indians Affairs in Alaska. a class of Seattle was iarround- from where he served the ing and Lower Yukon sections. After three years in the Interior, Dr. |Carter came to Juneau in May, 1¢35, to take over a post in the Hospital until he decided to be- come a member of the Juneau Medi- cal and Surgical Clinic and enter {private practice. Dr. Carter, is well known in Ju- neau as a physician and surge | patients at different times when| it has been necessary for Dr. Coun- cil to leave the city. Dr. Carter and Miss Margaret Tatham were recently married here. Dr. and Mrs. Carter occupy apart-! ments adjoining the Clinic suite on the second floor of the Goldstein) the ‘® N | JUNEAU CARTER Council, DR. WILLIAM P. BLANTO DR. W. M. WHITEHEAD the member doctors who have combined their Dr. W. W. Council, Territorial Commissioner o f Health; Dr. C. C. Carter, Dr. William P. Blanton and DR. COUNCIL WELL KNOWN TO ALASKANS Clinic Senior Physncnan En- thusiast in Profes- sional Career Not only a physician and but also of outstanding abili- | fields, is Dr. W. W member of the Ju- au Medical and Surgical Clinic Besides being outstanding among | Alaskan doctors, Dr. Council is a| noted hunter, fisherman and writer; | and was famed, even during his| 5 at the Univer- | senior sity of Virginia when he was the| |first football player south of the| Mason-Dixon line to be selected| All-American by the famous Walter | Camp, leading sports commentator | of his time and originator. of the! All-American teams. ! Dr. Council graduated from an\ ginia in 1805, then “went West" an(h interned at the Hospital before coming and disappearing from the know- ledge of his classmates. On coming North, Dr. Council first settled inl Ellamar, practicing 1or the rnppor[ mine employees there from Febru- ary, 1906, until January, 1908, when he became associated with the late | Seattle General | to Alaska | Northwestern Railroad. for the railroad. into the city of Cordova, proper, and became the Cordova General Hospital, still operated by Dr. Coun- cil, who remains an owner. After nineteen years in Cordova, during which time he was elected and |1and, Dr. Whiting in operating a hospital|salmon just out of Cordova for M. J. Heney, | Council is also a bow and constructing the Copper River and)hunting After the|marksman rallroad was turned over to the op-|Council and his wife reside in the erating company, Dr. Council con-|Clinic apartments. tinued in direction of the hospital| In 1916 the hospitai was moved | fe cerved as mayor, Dr. Council came ' to Juneau in 1927, to open practice* any other state in the umion. Latest in X Ray quupmont consist] w of the X-Ray laberator g of table with tube (scurce cf fhe rays) suspended above it; showing the full equipment trahsformer, suspendéd cn whll beyofid “table, and auto-transformer contrel cabinet with timer, near the door. The light rectangle in the foreground is the fluoroscopic screen, used for immediate in- spections where the taking of pictures is not necessary. It is shield- ed from contact with the tube by the large vertical blackboard. n partnership with Dr. W. A. Bor- later buying out Dr. Borland. He was appointed Territorial Com- missioner of Health under the pres- ent administration. Besides being Juneau's foremost fisherman enthusiast, Dr. arrow expert and skilled rifle and trap shooter. Dr. RO v S R T John Adams and Thomas Jeffer- son, both died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independ- ence. They were the only two sign- ers, to become President, >ee — Texas grows more onlons than,day 0fl|ce Hours 0f Clinic | Are Announced Of 2 hours at the Juneau Mediczl and Surgical Clinic are 9:60 a. m. tc 5:00 p. m. and 7:00 p. m. to 8:00 p. m. each day ex- cept Sundays and holidays. There is always some member of the Clinic in attendance for emergency calls. .- —— ATTENTION MOOSE All Moose members are urged to attend the Moose Baseball Team | celebration and entertainment to THE BASIS OF STILL GREATER gl TERRITORY BY THE, MEDICAL PROFESSION. DOUGLAS, ALASKA Deserving . .. OF THE SUPPORT OF ALL- ALASKA THE Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic ERVICE TO THE be held at the Moose Hall Wednes- night starting promptly at 8:30. Refm:hmems —adv. o 4 114 All fine quality linoleum floor- coverings laid under the super- vision of Niqk Rockovich by— FEUSI & JENSEN ¥ ey

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