The Regents Meet

The Board ot Regenta of the University held a meeting last Thursday at which time it was supposed that the location of the new hospital building would be finally settled upon. But as severa! new locations had been offered to the board nee the last meeting, moro time was needed to gettle this important queetioo. At the morning session Regents Blai WhitmaD, Clark, Kiefer, Butterfield and Hebard were present, Regents Draper and Willett arriving later. The following appointment were recommended by the coiiirnittees and made by the board, all of them being lor one year: GeorgeHempl, B. A. '79, acting assistant professor in English and rhetoric. in place of Prof. Gayley. resigned. Frauk C. Smith, assistant ín quantltaUve analysis, in place of David H. Brown, resigned. Millen W. Haskell, Ph. D , instructor in mathcraatics, in place of Charles Puryear, resigned. F. C. Hicks, reappointed a'sistant iu politlcal eeonomy, without pay from the University. George W. Patterson, Jr., instructor in the department of electrical engineering. Judge Henry B. Brown. rcappointed as lecturer on admiralty in the law departmept. James H. Tufts, instructor in philosophy. Several new locations were offered to the board as sites for the new hospital building. Araong the offers was Mrs. Israel Hall's offer of ten acres of ground in the sixth ward free. James Toms offered to sell bis land in the third ward at a reasonable figure. There was considerable talk of the property both east and north of the observatory as a suitable location. After talking over the various sites the board adjourned uatil afternoon. While awaitiDg the arrival of Regent Draper in the afternoon the report of the CDmmittee that visited and inspected the verious hospitals of the east was presented, together with a sketch of a hospital designed by Dr. Vaughan, and which the committee thought would fill the ceeds at this place. The sketch shows a handsome front, two stories high, with long Ls reaching back at either end, a larga open court between the buildings in the rear of the main building ftirnishing light and air for all parts of the hospita!. Tne front is designed for offices aud reception room3. The wings, both on the first and second floor are contemplated for wards for the patiënt?, making four arge wards, each with dining room?, bath and toilet rooms, instrument rooms, etc, adjoining. On each of the front corners large oatagon towers arise, designed for lecture and operating rooms for both the allopathic and homoeapathio departments. The design shows a handsome, ornamental building as well as one that is well adapted to the use of the departments. It is so arranged that addítions can be built on as fast as needed. The committee gave a detailed account of the inspection of hospittfls vkifed at Detroit, Philadelphia, Kjw Y rk, B ■-in, Cambridge and Baltirnore. iVom lue best pointsof eaoh institution they had gleaned the necessities of a building here, and submitted the following recommendations as a part of their report : "There are two types of hospitals now in use, the pavilion and the compact or massive. The pavilion plan has the advantage of complete Eeparation of patietits with infectious diseases. The objections to it are the greater cost in building; the greater cost in heatiog ; the increased number of Eervants needed ; the fact that instruments must be provided for eaeh ward ; it is not adapted for clinical instruotion ; the food must be carried some distance and is often cold." "Having ouly a limited supply of money, the eommittee deern it not feasible to at'.empt to build a hospital with detached wardf mit ■"-e per patiënt per day, including food, fuel, attendance and everything by the massive or compact plan is given at $1, while by the pavilion plan it runs up to $1.41." " The conclusions that the committee reached are as follows : " " The building will have to consist of wards conneoted with each other, the operating rooms and administration offices." " The wards should be two stories high, with basement. The basement should be devoted prineipally to ths heating and ventilating apparatus." " The combined hot water and steara heating should be used if possible, otherwise steam should be used. Fire places arereeommended for ventilating purposes." " The Irech air is to be brought from out of doors direct over heated coita, and should enter the room near the floor. The foul air fines are to be in or near the floor (preterably one under each bed." "The air gpace for each patiënt should not be Ie3s than fourteen hundred cubic feet." " The height of ceilings of the warda should be fourteen feer. The floors should be of Georgia pine and paratined. The walls should be of soap9tone finish. The windows should extend within six inches of the ceiling, and the junction of the tops of the windows and tne walls with the ceiling should be curved. The wi ndows should be doublé and as air tight as possible." " All angles in the wards should be avoided and the roundmgs should be concave and not convex. Wooden facirgs for the windows should be omitted altogether, and those for the do Drs should have perfecly smooth surfaces." "Water closets and bath tubs should be ventüated downward into heated flues. Bath tubs should stand out with every part exposed, and porcelaia lined. Hoppers for emptyiug slops should be made of coDDer and supplied with hot and cold water faucets. Tñelaundry should be in au additon to the basemsnt, not directly under any part of the building." The report of the committee was referred to the medical committee, together with Dr?. Vaughan and Obelz. Dr. Obetz spoke to the board, advocating that the new hospital be piaced upon the campus, where the playgroundis now located. By doing this the iull amount of the appropriaiion could be used for erecting a building, andit would be muoh more convenient and etoiomical to carry ou the hospital f it was located on the grounds with the other buildiDgs. Dr. Ford advised locating the hospital as near the campus as pofesible but preferred to have it away irom the other buildings. The regents then took cariages and drove to the various sites offered, but when they returned they were still undecided as to which would be the best locatiou, and the matter waa lelt until the regular meeting, Oet. 15. The board adjourned until that date. _______