HOSPITAL.
Action was taken by the Board of Visitors during the last session
providing for the erection of a hospital at the University, to be occupied
chiefly by charity patients, and to be so conducted as to give the
largest amount of clinical experience possible to each member of the
upper classes in the Department of Medicine. The services of a competent
architect were secured at once, and plans were prepared by
him, under the advice of the Medical Faculty, which have since been
adopted. These provide for a central administration building, three
stories in height, which will contain reception and consultation rooms,
offices, accommodations for internes and nurses, kitchen, laundry, etc.
Attached to this is a convenient and well-lighted operating-room with
an ample amphitheatre. Connected with it on either side are one-story
wards which afford space for sixty beds. The plan is such that these
can at any time readily be so extended as to double their capacity.
The hospital has been located upon the vacant space to the eastward
of East Range, sufficiently remote from the rest of the University,
yet readily accessible to patients and students alike. While the
importance of the undertaking has rendered it necessary, under the
existing circumstances, to proceed with deliberation, bids have been
received and work begun, and it may be confidently expected that a
portion at least of the hospital will be completed and ready for occupancy
by patients at the beginning of the coming session.
