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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



suppression of disease and the improve- | 

 merit of health. Of special interest is 

 the New General Hospital at Cincin- 

 nati, for we have there the only in- 

 stance in the country of a municipal 

 university and hospital, conducted by 

 and for the city. A medical school and 

 hospital, cooperating in their common 

 work and directly controlled and sup- 

 ported by the city, is an example which 

 we may expect to see followed else- 

 where. One may therefore note with 

 satisfaction the admirable plans of the 

 Cincinnati Hospital indicated in the 

 accompanying bird's-eye view, kindly 

 given us with some description by Dr. 

 Christian R. Holmes, dean of the med- 

 ical school and president of the new 

 hospital commission. 



The hospital will be opened in Oc- 

 tober, 1914, with 850 beds, but all ad- 

 ministrative buildings have been built 

 large enough to care for 1,500 patients. 

 The buildings are located on a plot of 

 27 acres; adjoining this on the west and 

 north are 38 additional acres, also be- 

 longing to the hospital, for future ex- 

 pansion and to be used for day camps 

 for children or adults needing sunshine 

 and outdoor life under medical super- 

 vision, also night camps for men with 

 incipient or arrested tuberculosis, who 

 are still bread winners, for, while lo- 

 cated on high land in one of the sub- 

 urbs, the grounds are easy of access. 



The admitting department and out- 

 door clinic, surgical pavilion, kitchen 

 and service building are located on the 

 long axis of the group, to be easy of 

 access from all the pavilions, and be- 

 ing low structures do not interfere with 

 light and air. All the buildings (ex- 

 cept the contagious group) are united 

 by large well-lighted basement and first- 

 story corridors. A patient can be taken 

 on a wheeled stretcher all over the 

 twenty-seven acres through the base- 

 ment corridors without the use of in- 

 clines, steps or elevators. 



The administration building (No. 1 ) 

 contains an extensive working and ref- 

 erence library for the staff and stu- 

 dents and a lecture hall suitable for 



meetings of various kinds, but especially 

 for medical societies. The City thus 

 shows its appreciation of the free serv- 

 ice that the medical profession renders 

 to the city's poor, by furnishing a meet- 

 ing place, where not alone the staff, but 

 every physician in the city can come 

 and have the advantages that only a 

 well equipped teaching hospital can fur- 

 nish. They need not confine their 

 meetings to this hall alone; use can be 

 made of the large amphitheater where 

 will be placed powerful projecting lan- 

 terns and every facility for demonstra- 

 tions. Ox they may meet in the amphi- 

 theater of the spacious pathological 

 building where the professors of pathol- 

 ogy and bacteriology can give demon- 

 strations of specimens saved specially 

 for such meetings. Thus the hospital 

 may be made the city's center for med- 

 ical education, not limited to the staff, 

 the students and internes. 



Adjoining the administration build- 

 ing is the admitting department and 

 Outdoor Clinic where students can see 

 every variety of emergency, medical, 

 obstetric and surgical cases. They 

 can also follow up and see final results 

 in those who have recovered sufficiently 

 to leave the hospital, but return as out- 

 patients for treatment until entirely 

 cured. The basement of the admitting 

 department is well lighted by wide 

 areaways. Every patient 's clothing 

 passes through the large sterilizer lo- 

 cated here, and then goes to the tailor- 

 shop to be cleaned, mended and pressed 

 before being stored away; there is also 

 a large sunstroke and poison room here 

 with every modern facility for treating 

 such eases. On the main floor of the 

 admitting department and the Outdoor 

 Clinic in addition to the examination 

 and treatment rooms, we have two 

 wards — one for each sex, where pa- 

 tients who arrive after 9:00 p.m. are 

 kept till the next morning, in order not 

 to disturb the ward patients. The so- 

 cial service department will have its 

 office in this building. The ambulance 

 or any public conveyance will bring the 

 ordinary cases to the front of the build- 



