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PARK AND CEMETERY 
PLAN FOR HOSPITAL GROUNDS 
To prepare plans for the gardens of a hospital desig- 
nated to the treatment of consumptives is not an every 
day occurrence. No siiggestions were offered by the 
board of directors or the medical staff. That the 
patients would receive a large percentage of their treat- 
ment from outdoor exercise became at once apparent 
and perhaps the gardens wotild add greatly to the 
popularity of the hospital as an advertising medium. 
The divided garden plot gave encouragement to pro- 
games, a flower garden and a maze or tangle of walks 
for exercise have been provided. 
The buildings are situated in the best location possi- 
ble, where the sun will be able to lend its health bring- 
ing rays to every room, leaving plots on each side 
for garden purposes in full view from the sick rooms. 
The main entrance is one of some breadth, giving a 
splendid view of the rather pretty building and the 
gardens to either side. 
Just in front. of the entrance to the building 
stands a statue of St. Ann on a slightly raised terrace. 
iPLAN OF ST. ANN’S HOSPITAL GROUNDS, CHICA(iO, BY JAMES JENSEN. Scale, 20 feet to one inch. 
duce two distinctly different designs, something that 
should not be overlooked in a place where every added 
attraction would prove of great benefit to the patient- 
visitor. 
Thus one side has been laid out into a miniature 
park, with plenty of walks, pretty scenery, abundance 
of sunlight and sheltered to the north by evergreen 
plantation, which in return will have a healthy in- 
fluence upon the sick, make the garden useful in bright 
winter weather, and give character to the winter land- 
scape. In the other part a large lawn for kindred 
The rear building — not hospital — has been well 
hidden by such trees as elms, lindens and soft maples, 
.with an undergrowth of Philadelphus and high bush 
cranberry, and the front buildings relieved by climbers 
and a heavy planting of low growing shrubs such as 
Berberis Thunbergii, Hydrangea pan. grdfl., Symphor- 
icarpus var., Rosa rugosa, Althaeas — Althaeas freeze 
down here — with some scattered clumps of Ligustrum 
Ibota for a background, especially where Hydrangea 
and Althaeas are used. The rear court is to be con- 
structed of cement for cleanliness’ sake, with sufficient 
