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THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOSPITAL.

The hospital is the property of the University and is under the exclusive
control of its Medical Faculty. It was designed and is administered as
a teaching hospital, being so arranged that free use can be made of its
clinical material without in any way disturbing or violating the privacy of
other patients.

The buildings are arranged upon the pavilion system, consisting of a
central structure, four stories in height, to which have been added up to
the present time three additional units of three stories each. The central
building is largely devoted to administrative purposes and general service
departments, but also contains an amphitheater and suite of private operating
rooms, sterilizing and anesthetizing rooms. The three pavilions are connected
with the main building by corridors on each floor. In these are
located the wards and suites of rooms for private patients. As at present
constituted the hospital has a capacity of about 200 beds; of these, upwards
of 160 are available and used for clinical teaching.

The recently completed north pavilion contains, in addition to quarters
for ward and private patients, on the first floor, a specially designed
series of laboratory rooms, which have been equipped with new and
modern furnishings and apparatus throughout. The basement floor is
devoted in large part to the Out-Patient Department of the Hospital. Here
separate waiting rooms for white and colored patients are provided, examining
rooms for medical cases, operating rooms for minor surgery, specially
equipped rooms for genito-urinary and orthopedic surgery and for the
treatment of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. On the same
floor is the Roentgen Ray Department of the Hospital.

Attention is particularly called to the fact that the hospital with its associated
Out-Patient Department, constitutes a most valuable adjunct to
the teaching facilities of the Department of Medicine. The size of the
clinic permits the presentation of a wide variety of cases, and the organization
of the hospital as an integral part of the Medical Department affords
exception facilities for thorough study of the individual case.

The location of the University Hospital is a most favorable one, being
situated at the intersection of two great railway trunk lines near the geographical
center of the State. A large population outside of the city of
Charlottesville is available as a source of clinical material, both in the
wards and the out-patient department. The hospital is thus enabled to
serve a large area of the State, and the transportation facilities are such
that this service includes a progressively increasing number of emergency
cases and cases of acute illness.

HOSPITAL STAFF.

Hospital Board: Drs. Hough, Davis, Watts, Hedges, Macon, Marshall,
Compton, Flippin, Goodwin, Bray.

Visiting Staff: The visiting staff consists of the Hospital Board and
the Clinical Instructors in the Out-Patient Department.

Superintendent of the Hospital: Dr. Pratt.

House Surgeon: Dr. Woodberry.

House Physician: Dr. Gage.

Assistant House Surgeon and Roentgenologist: Dr. Wright.

Internes: Drs. Broocks, E. Neff, Hyde and Scott.

Superintendent of Nurses: Miss Margaret Cowling.

Assistant Superintendent: Miss Isabel Craig Anderson.

Night Superintendent: Miss Clarissa Canfield.

In Charge of Operating Room: Miss Tabitha S. Grier.

Dietetic Nurse: Mrs. G. G. Montague.

Pathologists: Dr. Marshall and Dr. Smith.

Pharmacist: Mr. Norburn.