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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1958)
fc MAIL TRIBUNE, Mdfol, Oten, FrUay, April 25, 1958 jCiiikhem), 4he DUD MeV HlospDfel Hqnu3 d p oItd mi 1 ' '4"r' w" " - tjP&WK'UttAvftttta MEALS for patients will be prepared in kitchen in building basement "7 iSwJ f Siifliy ' ' ivf lYiliir'" mminKtmnmmm In every hospital, there is much more than the patient or visitor actually sees. There is the kitchen where food is prepared for patients, water distillers because hospitals require large amounts of distilled water, machines to keep equipment sterile. There are facilities for heating, laundering-equipment, and many hidden pipes and ducts. In the new hospital there .also is a chapel, con ference rooms, a cafeteria and a snack bar and gift shop. The latter is just inside the main entrance. ' Among construction features which visitors tomorrow and Sunday will notice is the conduc tive 'tile floors in the operating and delivery rooms so there will be no static electricity. Rub ber tile was used in the corridors, vinyl tile elsewhere. The heating system 'is hot water convector radiation, with outdoor thermometers anticipat ing temperature changes in advance and regu lating the flow of hot water in four zones. There are special locker and lounging rooms for all hospital personnel, including the lay-help, practical and graduate nurses and the medical staff. Patient rooms contain clothes closet, toilet, wash bowl, baths in three rooms, showers in five rooms, night light, high light, low light, oxygen, suction, power outlet, and private telephone-, if desired. They also include television and radio antennae, and a two-way call system to nurses. Many of the pictures in this section were taken by Carl Landis, Medford photographer, Brainerd's, and staff members of the Mail Trib une. Engravings were made by Medford Engraving. distilled water is important item in hospital MACHINES SUCH AS THESE WILL STERILIZE EQUIPMENT AND INSTRUMENTS The Publication of this Rogue Valley Memorial Edition is Made Possible Through the Cooperation of VALLEY SHADE CO. ANYTHING FOR THE WINDOW CANVAS METAL PLASTIC MEDFORD, OREGON SELBY GLASS CO. Complete Glass Service NATIONAL CASH REGISTERS 23 No. Ivy St. Medford LININGER'S READY MIX CONCRETE RADIO DISPATCHED TRUCKS MEDFORD o OREGON
