New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1923, Page 10

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14, 1923, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER NEW PAVILION AT HOSPITAL LAST WORD IN EFFICEENcY | PAVILION UNDER CONSTR lined with black beards, mina- | are : '"'7 “m M‘“ 'o‘lun furniture of the most comfort. able patiern is instalied, or Contribute to Welfare and |ani tors for the youngster hemasives with will be added. The It u.m of Patients !Oi"|“'" which are net covered with | blackboards are covered with paper B. lfl‘m | containing pietures of ehildhood fairy tales On each floor of the institution will be & floor laberatory for reutine The old fashioned public hospital ' mieroscopical work. Each floor also ward with anywhere from a doszen to has a surgical dressing room, where in & room will be a thing of patients are wheeled from their wards or private reom for sueh And hospital service and offi- | 3 oonings and treatments as are not cieney will be raised to hitherto un:- [advisable te be made at the hed. known standards when the new build. | side Ing now belng ereeted by the New Private Rooms On Thisd Floor Britain General hospital is thrown| On the third fioer patients will be | in private rooms, All the mere mod. #pen for use, probably by January 1.| "0l con onionces will be pro- o gl : ] . The huilding is located on lilb[\llvl““".‘ for patients who want the best o S A ground which lends itself admirably | of attention and ean afford to pay L SN ; e 0 resses to the purpose for which the strue. for it. There are also rest rooms for nurses. Here will he books, tables ture is intended A ¥ TETRBE < VT b ST N PR X v S and eomfortable chairs, ete, for the [~ - . % " : : At present the institution has twO | comrort of those who Ister 1o the [y qown on beds provided for the (same temperature as it 1eft the kitch. ) equipment for the ehildren is % chil- Feehng that you are rnOle interested .ln the operating rooms. With the comple- |comforts of others. 1n these rooms (e, on' o1, “aven: thatgh ‘it may traval con.|dren's: tihroom, =~ with” :minjatire dress values than how it was made possible, we tion of the new building there will | Will be electric annunciators, indicat. | Other patients who feel stronger |siderable distance, equipment whn'v:”‘l:ln 1'1.:;1"21"::."- n‘l:r;p': \\'i" omit the cause, 'I‘he hrilliant and cal‘l'ylng be three operating rooms Ing where n nurse is wanted when & |, go outside under the column sup- | On each floor also i found a |of efficioncy H ! At what is the present emergency | Patient rings a hell orted roof in their wheel chairs and [supply closet. In each of these clos. |added comfort 18 the window con- mood of the style tendencies are here in plenti- here first ald ¥ vt h thin |5 1w 'to'b AL truction, all window frames being 1 foom, where first ald treatment is ¥ private room has N (obtain probably the finest view to be [eta s a laundry chute. Soiled linen, [struction, all window frames S iif L : - : 4 Kiven, the adjoining wall will be torn | reach of the patient, an electric switch |sgen anywhere in New Rritain, The [sach floor having its own particular | bullt to within two feet of the floor, ful variety presenting style newness at its in out and the room extended to cover|for a reading lamp, a call bell for the {Chiidren's Home, itselt & high perch [mark, is brought into these tlosets [¥0 that children and convalescont pa- ception at an extreme sacrifice of price. ‘s floor space of ahout 21x18 foet, | nurse and a private telephone con- (on top of a hill, seems far below the land thrown Into the chute, whers [tients can sit on low rhnl'rln. r::;-krn, . . Where there will be room for a bed, | neeting with the switchboard In the (¢on of the new hospital bullding. A [it drops to the ground or basement [Ctc., and see plainly over the city, s : $5cis if necessary, stretchers and medical (main office and from there to the [yower 4t Colchester can he distin- [floor, and Iands In the soiled linen +i0ne! Nurea Yo Fojie Retients Poiret Twill, Tricotine, Velvet, Canton Crepe, and surgical equipment for prompt |central station down town. Unique in | cyiuneq plainly on a clear day, while [room. From this room it goes im- n each of the four bed wards w! 3 i ren ) and emergency treatment [faclities for prampt service 18 an (gne can aimont ser the lawn about the [mediatoly 1o tha washroom and from | fationed one nurse who wil ook Crepe Satin, Flat Crepe and Charmeuse. after these four patients exelusively, The present male ward will be electric light globe over the doorway capitol building in Hartford. there to the froning or mangling | : R call ball. which turned into a staff room where there |0f each room. If a nurse happens “’; This portico will be used as a roof room. From the latter department it | Each bed will hav ,:'” p P G will be library tables, easy chairs|he coming down the corridor and & |, 4en and in the summer time flower |finds its way into the seamstress de. |Vl communicate with an annun ) tor in a nurses’ statlon, a comfort- ° ° [ and a medical libra Half of the patient rings, it i3 not necessary that |, I b ed at convenient |part t 5 t B Ll Bacome s mseting roor for | the nures g back 6. the . west oot ‘l‘f“::l" Wi onl st ":;Ln':‘:""If‘,'“""’"fi':“”"”:.r"""":‘..ma rest room where the nursen wil the staff and directors. to see ;"""' 'R"h‘"" l"‘ l:‘f’"]""fi "’“h:)'; On the first floor there are indica- [they go to the sorting room and each ‘:‘\:_2':’:;:;1:" T,F:‘:;”“‘sil‘l‘ I,:Tmnh:- s ‘There will be three of four x-.ray """:""'l'l“h‘:" -Illl;w: ey .\-:::h::lnn.r tlons of housekeeping etficiency which | floor gets its own supply hack. Each (i TIETEET L0 G T e iizer rooms which will cover 10 times the(snd's "lm" o :’h: :. has been |VOUld strike a chord of happiness in [nurse gets her personal laundry re- and other equipment on each floor, in- present floor space devoted to s el the awiten controlling. the |the heart of the most efficient house- |turned to her locker and the next eluding a laundry chute to the base- . important branch of the work. The ::':TI' o L keeper, batch goes the rounds. ment ) Fall Coats m Newer es c::::'::e;‘::;:':"‘:;;,:::;’ M“c"':'m"'l‘; e e gl S |y SO Iarge office on this floor Will] On the firat floor in addition to the | Each floor will have one head nurse . h ] avery °* |be used by Miss Maude E. Traver, di- ¥ ¥ i} 5 - & space 27 feet square insfead of the | lighting system so that it is possible v ane 9 raver, di- [kitchen are found the dining rooms. |or floor supervisor. Under her su ! o 5 b 5 little cramped quarters, 18x7 feet, it | fo have a brilliantly flluminated room |G gor®e® 4t KBRS e Lo Acia dinink ronin Car L1 nervision’.will bevtval sspior. mupll | Here are some of the new arrivals in 3 J % d n s floor is foun e CheN imembers of the staff, one foy the |nurses, one to each wing, and each o0 e : s e “T'h:tlcuur:‘:.;o i “‘n"l""""'""":.“"c"‘:':";::""‘ym:";.":. ""é:‘:": or culinary .department. The Kitchen |gpecial nurses, and one for n,f‘ reg- |senfor nurse will have eight student . strikingly original designs, fashioned . | fac! ¥ G h i / : " - tween the main corridor of the nr-:- room_ also 1 equipped with hot and '::;I::dflq"m';d o “‘:"‘d"r" m’“"- ular hospital nurses. There are |nurses under her 4"”!?""'0"» ; 'M‘ ! .‘m materials that lend themselves s y w e connecte w an (gpecial diet kiteh f tient ¢ill be under the general supervision ’ & . i eht building and the operating room |cold running water and many of the (%) SU0 VY S FORTAEES, LU Af | special ¢ B D e reari i tinsititlan. Wil 5@ | gracefully to the new silhouettes. They will be moved 30 faeet farther out and | rooms has private bathroom service, quire a certain particular form of |0 lapa § o 14 the present south ward, opening onto! This floor as the second will have ;vhir'h'llz.h Reok:dclalmu 15 one of the |djet, |need about 50 nurses. il viaren many t_\'pes flOm th(‘ “tlhty Coat 2 nest in the world. | ——— o i Immediately under the kitchen and | ito the most sumptuous hefurred wrap- a.large porch will become a room for|a large open air veranda or airing iRy e L the use of the operating staff. { balcony on each end, also a large and No “Garbage" At Hospltal dining room are cold storage com- PAM TO COVER VILLAGE. Y models. The sterilization room, now located | small sun room. In connectlon with this refrigerating | partments. No coal will be hurned e i i to the north of the main operating| The fourth floor is the obstetrical [plant there is an interesting theory |in the kitchen, all fuel used being | picturesque Town of Derwent in Fing- ! ; room, wil be made into an etheriz. [department and is the very last work |about garbage disposal. “When you [gas, ; Blotted Out ‘ ing room and will be, conducted in|In service for the mothers and their (have.a piece of bread on your table, [ In the other end of the first foor, | land to Be Blotted 5 f additiom to the present etherizing | babies. it is food,” says Dr. Reeks. "But {somewhat deeper and having a height | Derbyshire, Sept. 14.—The pictur- ) TLarge’ nurseries with glass fronts, (when you take it off the table, in the equal to two regular floors is the |esque village of Derwent, with its [ [ ] S0 that the visitors to the institution 1vltlmlt!on of many people, it imme- engine room. Three larén boilers are | ducal scat dating back to the seven- : |can look through and see the bables, diately becomes garbage. Tho fact 13, |found here and a coal storage supply | teenth century will be blotted out in will be constructed as will one priv- (food does nct become garbage until it sufficient for several months. A col{- the near future and the population operating room and used at present |ate nursery where visitors will not be (Legins to ferment.” In line with this crete sidewalk runs from the Nurses' | Numbering several hundred Wil be| as an X-ray room, will become a new | permitted. theory, all table refuse will be kept |Home to the new pavilion. 0 | obliged to find fresh homes. operating room and the present small Fresh Air in Roof Rooms frozen until taken away hy the gar-| fThe building is so constructed that| The village will be submerged by [ ! pperating room will be enlarged. | no elevator which takes the pa-|PAage collector. Thus the new hos-[Leds can be wheeled fo any part and |the construction of a dam in connec- ; pital will.never, at any time, have any Lin case it is not felt wise to remove |tlon with the scheme of development [ room which will remain as it is. The present orthopedic room will hecome the third etherizing room. The room now facing the small| This will permit two major operating 4 rooms and one minor one. tient to and from the private room or |y oy thing ag garbage. the patient from the bed a stretcher |of the Derwent Valley Waterboard. | ward, also runs to the roof and here| yood is prepared in this Kitchen, |will not be needed. No systematic attempt is to be made | Rooms For Children 0 i One wing of the new building is again the thoughtfulness of Dr. T. ‘mc. is lined with a_hnndsome glazed Each floor also has a serving kitch- to demoligsh any of ll.m. village bm]d- brownish yellow brick, and is taken [en from which place food is served to | ings, the chief of which is a fine for men and the other for women, | Eben Reeks, superintendent, and the 3 They are exact duplicates except for |architect who drew up the plans, is to the different floors in thermos |the Qauontm Throughout the entire |stone mansion, I"(:r\\'(‘nt Hall, a seat / SHUP one feature. On the women’s side |manifest. A partico surmounts the [trucks, which keep it at, its required |building are built individual clothes [of the LR 9% N aildih st Sh wasl tLUA are rooms for children, children’s [top of the elevator shaft, into.which temperature. In the serving kitchens [closets. IKvery nurse, every attendant, | built in 1672, A large sum of money | 3 wards and playrooms or children’s |are built several rooms. Patients|on €ach floor is found plate warming |every employe, every patient even to | will be paid to the owners of the day rooms. These rooms are equipped | who are weak or tired, yet desire the [¢Quipment, so the patient will receive | the children patients has his or her | property and for the hall alone the With large sunny windows, the walls [open air may enter these rooms and [Warm food on warm plates at the | own closet. In addition to the other |authorities have had to pay $100,000. EEJEE]@E]EIEIIEEIEE]@EIEE]EEEEE@EEEEEEEE@EEE@EEES ‘ E ! T , II’TCJ-l- 0 ‘ ‘ ] Under the Egyptian spell, thé Yl silks and wools derive their in- spiration from the Valley of the Nile. H 22| ) L Intriguing colors of cyclamen, ’ amber, eucalyptus green, deep } yellows and the golden browns . ) 1 ! of Autumn—developed with a . | tier skirt, circular flounces and the ever present Egyptian girdle | // T S P PR S| ( 4 / { to inaugurate the new season. ] = = 8:30-12 a. m. and 1:30-5 p. m. Daily except Saturday which closes at noon { BRGIN A" THE TOP on September 15, 1923 ] WITH RIGHT HEADWEAR! Knitting Yarns FALLHATS || %, Topcoats The right Hat puts the finishing i & v g . touch to the smart attire. Coosing | b A light, weight moisture proof Underwear the right Hat here for the right head .' } over-garment, the most practical coat Lt ‘ a man can own, Sleeping Garments and | s400.s1200 L FRCRren e o o < ° ; il | ity, vet low in price. Miscellaneous Supplies ; $27.50 . You may charge them if you wish. An account here —The— Bristol Manufacturing ‘ [ e Company g o) | The Caesar Misch Store follow a taste 240 Asylum Street Hartford

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