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Show 'L 0. S. HOSPITAL TO j 8PENQ LARGE A10NT 1 Improvements Are to Be Made 'at Institution at Cost, of $20,000. The taking out of a. permit from tho office of the building Inspector Monday for changes amounting to ?20.000 by tho L. D. S. hospital, calls attention to a number of Improvements" which are bolng matlo at the hospital, Including tho erection of n. new healing plant and an emergency ward for orthopedic patients. It is intended to erect a substantial brick building with concrete foundation on Ninth avenue, between C and D streets. Tho structure will be 70 by 3C foet In size, and three stories at one end and two stories on the other. The third story will be used as an emergency ward I for the overflow of the wards of tho hospital, hos-pital, and especially for. .orthopedic patients. pa-tients. The building will be provided with three large boilers, two largo water tanks and two engines, with other necessarv paraphernalia connected with heatlnc plants. A chimney 110 feet high will bo erected near the plant, and everything- about the place arranged so as to provldo heating facilities not only for the present buildings build-ings of the hospital, but for any other buildings which may be erected for the Institution In tho near future. Work on the new plant Is already under way. and will be completed by next spring. |