Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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■x come into intimate contact with that phase of work which is most needed in their respective professions. In this way they acquire the practical working knowledge which inspires confidence and provides efficiency for their future work. Not only, however, is the high degree of proficiency in the school due to the increased resources and appropriations from the State, but to the unselfish devotion of the Faculty, which is probably unequaled by that of any other college in the country. The success of the school in its competition with wealthy and heavily endowed institutions is the best proof of the loyal service of its teachers. The school has kept well in the front rank of medical colleges of America and has been able to maintain this position, not through the gift of large sums of money, but through the endowment of an unpaid faculty which has unselfishly worked toward this end. II. THE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL The Memorial Hospital is an integral part of the Medical College of Virginia. It is the largest general hospital in the State of Virginia, having accommodations for 322 patients, with facilities, without regard of race, creed or color and financial resources. No hospital in the city of Richmond is as accessible as the Memorial Hospital from all sections. Situated on the brow of Broad Street Hill, it is in immediate promixty to the Capitol Square and many public buildings, and within easy reach of all depots, hotels and business section. Its location is quiet and re- moved from the general line of traffic. The hospital proper consists of a group of three buildings, situated at the north- east corner of Twelfth and Broad Streets. It is connected as it were under one roof, and includes an administration building, a private pavilion and a ward pavilion. The private pavilion has accommodations for fifty patients. These accommoda- tions consist of single rooms, two bed rooms and four bed rooms, which are com- fortably furnished. Wide corridors and sun parlors on each floor provide ample facilities for air, sunlight, recreation and social intercourse with friends. The ward pavilion has accommodations for 110 patients. The wards are large, well lighted and ventilated, and a sun porch is located on each floor. 23

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V The negro pavilion, the new unit of the Memorial Hospital, is situated on the site of the old Medical College of Virginia, and is used exclusively for the care and treatment of negro patients. It has accommodations for ninety-eight ward patients and forty patients in private rooms, and, while it is a part of the plant of the Memorial Hospital, its operation is complete within itself. The Dooley pavilion, another new unit of the Memorial Hospital, also situated on the site of the old Medical College of Virginia, is used exclusively for the care and treatment of patients with contagious and infectious diseases. It has accom- modations for from twelve to thirty-six patients, according to the demand of the service, the rooms having been so planned that from one to three patients may be accommodated. In order to meet the trend in hospital work toward scientific exactness, the Memo- rial Hospital has spent large sums in adding to its equipment. Graduate resident physicians, trained anaesthetists, registered pharmacists, graduate nurses and trained dietetians are among the personnel of its house officers. Its Bacteriological, Patho- logical and Tissue Laboratories and Roentgen Ray Laboratories are thoroughly equipped with the most modern apparatus and are ready for any examination at any time. These laboratories are under the direct supervision of physicians, who are devoting their entire time exclusively to their special branch of medicine. It is, therefore, immediately recognized that the plant of the Memorial Hospital performs a very specific activity in relation to the Medical College of Virginia, and that without the clinical opportunities afforded, which includes every branch of medicine and surgery, the College could not long maintain its high scholastic standing. III. VIRGINIA HOSPITAL The Virginia Hospital, formerly the teaching institution of the University Col- lege of Medicine in its clinical branches, though owned by the Medical College of Virginia, is now entirely under the control of the city of Richmond. For many years there was an arrangement between the city and the College by which patients were treated in this hospital while controlled by the school. But recently, owing to the growing demands in the city for a municipal hospital, the Virginia Hospital 25