Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-23 | Page 14 | Infirmary and Hospital Plans Made County Decides on Larger Capacity

INFIRMARY AND HOSPITAL PLANS MADE 3 0 . tf? U COUNTY DECIDES ON LARGER CAPACITY CJALT LAKE COUNTY HOSPITAL and Infirmary building, at Twenty-first South and State streets, extensive ini-provements ini-provements in connection with which are contemplated. SUSS? - V ! L , . Estimated Improvements I Are to Cost $110,000, and Be Models. Pl LANS for greatly increasing- the capacity ca-pacity and accommodations of the county hospital are under way with H the approval of the board of county commissioners. i The inadeciuacy of the hospital, as bur- dened with the Infirmary, to meet tho de- 5 mands upon the institution was felt acuie- 1 ly during the recent influenza epidemic- t As a result. Commissioner Joseph S. j Lindsay, head of the department of heaith. and charity, and Dr. T. J. Howells, coun- ty physician, have been authorized by the , board to confer with architects concerning concern-ing plans for a new and separate infirmary infirm-ary building: and the remodeling of the hospital building1 to come extent. The cost of a new infirmary building is expected to be about $75,000, while the improvements contemplated for the ho8-pital ho8-pital are expected to coat fbout $35,000. If the plans are carried through, the capacity of the hospital will be increased considerably more than double, chiefly by the recovery ot" hospital use of two floors of the hospital building now devoted to wards of the infirmary. New operating-rooms operating-rooms will be provided, improvements in the maternity ward are planned and private pri-vate wards are to bp instituted for accommodation ac-commodation of persons who, while not county charges, are in need of hospital service at moderate cost. This will tend to make the hospital somewhat self-sustaining. Dr. Howells is Just back from extended travel in the east, during which ho took occasion to glean ideas from the best hospitals hos-pitals of the country for application in improvement of the county institution. It is expected that the county hospital will be one of the best arranged and equipped institutions of the kind in the western country when the plans now in tho making have been carried through to completion. The new infirmary "will be built on county property adjacent to that on which the hospital now stands, at Twenty-first South and- State streets.