Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1929.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1929. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Miss Locke, Miss Dunham and Miss Lawson are graduates of the five-year combined course with Simmons College in Public Health Nursing. We have been grateful during the past year for another one of the many useful gifts from Mr. Au¬ gustus Hemenway; he gave the hospital $1,000 for the purchase of modern beds. This gift has inspired the Corporation to fit the hospital completely with modern beds as well as with many modern bed tables. The hospital needs financial aid. Our patients are increasing. Modern methods are becoming more and more expensive and our endowment is no larger. Many departments of the hospital urgently require new buildings. The Out-Door Department has grown and there should be additions, particularly to the admitting, social service, and record departments, which will better enable them to care for our patients. The cost of this addition is estimated at $30,000, and an endow¬ ment of $30,000 will be necessary to support it. At present, we lack the special departments such as eye, ear, nose and throat and a dermatological service. The housing of these will require an additional story upon our present out-patient building at an estimated cost of $75,000, requiring an endowment of $50,000. Tentative plans have also been made for a clinical library building. Our present quarters are outgrown. Our record stenographers are now scattered. A large part of our clinical records constantly in use are now stored in an inconvenient basement. We have no suit¬ able locker rooms and rest room for these workers. It is estimated that a building for these needs which would also house our small patients’ library and pro¬ vide a photographic studio for record work would