NO. 2,901.
iu larrodt PERTH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1935.
PRICE THREEPENCE.
OPENING OF NEW GERALDTON HOSPITAL
Blessed by Bishop O'Collins
ing excellent views, particularly from the balconies. The entrance hall, on the left of which is the office and on the right a special room for the doctors, leads to the MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE FOR ST. JOHN large central hall, front which asOF GOD NUNS cends the main staircase giving access to the upper floor. In front of the staircase room has peen provided for an electric lilt, a convenience. which will greatly facilitate the working of the hospital. The ground floor will be used for male patients. . On the right of the entrance hall are the X -Ray department, the operating theatre, the sterilising department. two single rooms for patients, and the main ward, which will accommodate twelve beds. The furnishings have been carried out in most tasteful manner. and were it not for the hospital beds in the private rooms one w ould have a difficulty in realising that one was in a hospital. These beds are of the ,latest modern design, with a fitting at the foot which permits of the foot of the bed being adjusted to any required height. whilst at the head His Lordship Rt. Rev. Dr. O'Collins, Bishop of Geraldton, there is a handy contrivance Blessed and Opene d the new Hospital. which will enable a patient to raise himself in bed if he so deOn Saturday, the 19th ult., a new hospital for the St. John of sires. There seems to have been God Sisters was blessed and opened by His Lordship, Rt. Rev. nothing overlooked, and the variDr. O'Collins, Bishop of Geraldton, assisted by Very Rev. Dean ous articles of furniture aro fitIrwin, Rev. Father Gallagher. ted with glass tops, thus render The civic and medical authorities and a very large crowd g the care of them much mort attended the opening ceremony. The hospital, which has been e sv and convenient l'he rooms built at a considerable cost fills a much-felt need, and by are bright and airy :n the exvirtue of its modern equipment will be able to vie with anything treme. and as all of them of its kind in the State. cr. to verandahs and Ialconie.,s. every facility is afforded for Egbt W ith its conipietion, residents Very Rev. Dean Irwin, the Rev. snd air, and for the p? tients he • of Geraldton and also many from Father Gallagher, and by a num- ing able to go outside to enjoy adjacent districts had the satis- ber of altar boys. After the main the sunshine and fresh air when faction of seeing the building entrance to the hopital, facing they are permitted to do so. blessed and then officially opened K eane-street, had been blessed, Provision has been made for elby His Lordship the Bishop of the main doors were entered and ectric heaters in the theatre, Geraldton (Rt. Rev. Dr. O'Col- the blessing of the iraerior of the wards and bedrooms, thus ensurn g every comfort. lins) on Saturday afternoon. building was carried out. An Marking as it does an important adjournment was then made to The theatre is fitted up on the feature of development in re- the veriindah facing Fraser, St., most modern methods, and is spect to Geraldton and the sur- where, from a platform, His lighted with the latest shadowrounding districts, the opening of Lordship Bishop O'Collins• de- less lamp. whilst the furnishings the new hospital was an event clared the new hospital open. and equipment are of stainless Which had been eagerly looked The building, of plain. hut sub- steel. The floor is what is known forward to, and a large crowd at- stantial design, stands on an ele- as a "terrazo" floor, and the room tended to witness the celebra- vated site, with a frontage f. is so designed as to ensure every tions associated with the event. K eane Street facing west. En- facility for it being kept spotless. As the appointed time for the trance is obtained by way of The operating table is one of the c eremony approached crowds as- Fraser Street. leading off Dur- very latest model, so arranged sembled in front of the building. lacher Street, with a gravelled that it can be used in various roadway in front of the building positions. Adjoining the theatre many residents from the country facing Keane Street. The front is the sterilising room. and this being noticed among the gathering, and a line of cars and other of the building is shaped like t!-'e is equipped with the latest and vehicles stretching from Green- letter "H." the main entrance be- most modern equipment for the 'Nil Road along Fraser Street ing in the centre of the inset square. With the pillared archWas an indication of the wide in- ways of the verandahs on the terest which the project had oc- ground floor supporting the balcasion ed. conies on the upper floor, and with ,nimmedintelv prior to the open- its tiled roof, an imposing apceremony His Lordship. pearance is given to the building. n Coiling. blessed the which commands a view across lew building-. and in. this cere- to the back beach and the front w°nY he was acc( .mpanied by the beach. the bush country affordShof,
work required of it, steam being provided for carrying out the necessary sterilising. The X-Ray department will be fully equipped with the most modern apparatus available.. A rectified valve high-powered transformer, specially designed to operate on the municipal electric supply, is at present under construction at the factory of Messrs. V .. Watson and Son Ltd., who are supplying the X -Ray equipvill be installed ment. This shortly. together with a special radiographic and fluorographic tilting table. This table vill permit of X-Ray examinations being carried out in both the horizontal and vertical positions. being tiled by means of a specially geared mechanism. It has incorporated into it a number of devices, which will enable difficult X-Ray examinations to be carried out with the utmost comfort to the patients. In addition, so that patients. who cannot be moved, may be X -Rayed at the bedside, a mobile X-Ray unit is provided. This unit has already • been installed. All of the apparatus is of the most up-to-date description procurable. and will enable all classes of X-Ray work to be carried out at the hospital. A dark room has been provided under the main staitcase for the development of plates. The work was can ied out under the able direction of the Mother Provincial from St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, whilst the permanent staff is under the charge of Mother Mary Immaculate. The staff consists of six nurses and trained sisters, in addition to the domestic staff. Rev. Father Gallagher said he felt particularly honoured to represent the Sisters of St. John of God, on whose behalf he wished to thank His Lordship, Bishop O'Collins, for his kindness in attending to bless and officially open that magnificent hospital. The Sisters had asked him to welcome Bishop O'Collins and also the Mayor (Mr. G. Lester), and the citizens generally. The Sisters regarded the large attendance that afternoon in th light of a prophecy of what would occur in the future. namely, that the people who were evincing such an interest in the hospital would take a similar interest in (Continued on Page 17.)
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The new Hospital is a fine Architectural Specimen.