Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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l)fL ' H takrii til prfvi ' iit iH ' vrii)i.T:iti(iii (if sdUiid anil to frcalf a quiet atniiisphcrc. Both hospitals are particularly well lilted for teacliins, ' . I ' rovisions have been made in each huilding for lectures and denionstratiuns of the various types of operations. There arc also (lark rooms for developing photographs and for projecting them upon a screen. Thougli e(|uip- ped for teaching, the hospitals have a larger mmiber of private rooms than the average, which give more s])ace to wards. Maternity llos]iital will have a capacity of one luimlred and si. ty beds, hut could accom- modate twice that number if it were crowded as much as the i)resent building. Its present ((uarters at 3700 Cedar Avenue were originally designed for i. t - lieds, but during the last few years have lieen forced to take care of one luuidred. Ilabies ' Hospital will accommodate one hundred beds. Including the basement and sub-basement, each hospital has nine floors. Maternity Hospital and the Reserve Medical School are so affiliated that the latter ha.s exclusive teaching privileges and nominates the staff of the Hospital. A close relationship exists between the Rabies ' Hospital and the Medical School, since a large part of the staff of the hospi- tal are teachers in the school. The total cost of the two Imildings furnished complete will amount to $. .200,000. This sum was raised by subscription throughout the community in May and June of 1923. THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ' i he new Medic;d Library, which is now being constructed on the corner of Adelbert riiad and Euclid avenue, will be a very considerable asset to the Medical School. It will round out on one campus a complete, self-sufficient medical unit. The building is the gift of Mrs. F. F. Prentiss to the Cleveland Medical Library Associa- tion. It was given in memory of her late husband, Dr. Dudley P. Allen, and will be called the Dudley Allen Memorial Library. The cost of the completed structure will approximate $625,000. The land for the building was donated by Western Reserve University. The library is composed of two buildings in one, and is so arranged that the two parts can be used jointly or separately. The entrance for the exclusive use of the Academy of Medicine will be situated on Adelbert road to facilitate parking at the time fif monthly meetings. The auditorium for these meetings will have a capacity of six hundred. It will be situated on the main floor and will not have a balconv. The floor of the auditorium has been designed MaU-riiily Uusj ' ilat uiui Buhnw ' litisi ' uai — iivi . ' Uiidid . Inicturcs Uliuh Monument to the Progress of Medical Science at Reserve. iliUili a 29

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iiu slatically controlled. This power plant will ln ' at the P.ahies ' 1 fospilal, the Maternity Hos- jiital. and Lakeside Hospital, when it is l)iiilt. I ' roni its early days the Reserve Medical •School has been in the vanfruard of progress. The school was one of the first to require a four-year course for graduation and an . . Vi. degree for entrance, and the tirst to establish a Chair of l -xperiniental Medicine with a full- time professor as its occupant. . t present it is the largest medical school in the world under (jne roof. A total of 5096 hours is recjuired for graduation. This is somewhat larger than many other schools demand. No graduate of the school, since 1910, has failed to pass a State Board examination. The school has unusual clinical advan- Thc Laboratoncs arc Equipped tmth Every Con- tages. The Rabies ' Hospital and the Maternity ccivahlc Appliance. Hospital which are on the same campus, will be completed next fall. Another five years will see Lakeside Hospital built on the school ' s cam- pus also. Other clinical opi)ortunities are those otifered by City and Charity Hospitals, the Tuberculosis Dispensary, the Dispensary of Charity Hospital, the Dispensary of Western Re- serve University and Lakeside Hospital, and Rainbow Hospital. In 1923 a total of over 100,000 visits were made. The school is supjiorted largely by endowment and special contributions. The income from tuition and fees covers only twenty per cent of the current budget. THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL AND THE RABIES ' HOSPITAL Grotmd for the new Rabies ' Hospital and Maternity Hospital on the Reserve Medi- cal School campus was broken August 1, 1923. Since that time the construction has pro- gressed as rapidly as possible, and the buildings will be ready for occupancy the latter part of the year. The plans for the hospital are the result of an architect ' s work, the advice of an expert consultant, and the ideas of the men whose work-shops they are to be. Mr. Abram Garfield was the architect, while Dr. Goldwater of Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, acted as con- sultant. The detailed development of the various parts was worked out by Dr. Arthur H. Bill of Maternity Hospital and Dr. Henry J. Ger- stenberger of Babies ' Hospital. The hospitals are the embodiment of the most modern and advanced ideas in their line. Both have their own system of labora- tories and operating rooms. They are equipped with elaborate X-ray apparatus of the latest type. In their heating and ventilation, a defi- nite effort has been made to furnish all rooms with pure fresh air and to provide out-dom- conditions for all patients. These aims have been effected through the filtration of air and the thermostatic control of heat. To avoid unnecessary dirt and fumes all mechanical power and heat for the two hospitals will be carried through a tunnel from the Medical School power house. Every precaution has A Visia in the Annlomv Museum. 28

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with an umiMially Awp ])itch for tlir dvial purpoe of at ' l ' urdin ' a better view of (lemoiT-trations accoiiipanyinj? the lectures, and of facilitating discussions from the floor. A regulation moving picture booth will accommodate stereopticon and motion picture machines. A speaker ' s plat- form will he provided, with an adjoining rest room. A su[)i)er room seating over two hundred will be placed in the west end of the basement. A small dining room for the use of committees or small groups of any kind is to adjoin this supper room. The new building w ' ill have a reading and lounge room for members, and a museum for antiquated surgical instruments. It was designed In Walker and Weeks, architects, and is to be built of limestone in a severe, classic design. It is hoped tliat the building will be completed by the first of the year. The Library, establi hed in 1.S ' I4, ati ' ords limitless opportunities for medical students in study and research. A collection of 3I,2.?5 volumes in the various fields of medical literature, including the history of medicine, and 16,000 theses, place it in the front rank among medical libraries. It subscribes to over three hundred domestic and foreign journals devoted to the ])rac- tice of medicine and its specialties. In its collection of rare old medical Ixjoks there are a luunber which were published in 1500 A. D. Through its privilege of borrowing books from the Surgeon-General ' s Library in Washington the liljrary has access to virtually any medical work or journal. The library is open to the public for reading purposes, but only members are allowed to draw books. It is supported by endowment and by the medical profession of the citv. Three hundred of Cleveland ' s foremost doctors are members of the association. The site donated by Reserve is the old Ford homestead. It was in this building that the first classes of the College for Women were held in 1888. For the last two years the ScIkmjI of Applied Social Sciences has been housed there. This c uaint, rambling old brick house with its wmIIow trees waving beside it, was the farm- house when all the surrounding country was in cultivation. The School of Applied Social Sciences will carry on its work in a reconstructed building at 2117 Adelbert road, and in part of the unused space in the new School of Medicine. RELATION OF MEDICAL SCHOOL TO HOSPITALS The connection between the .School of Medicine of Western Reserve University and the Lakeside Hospital is intimate and the School has full clinical control of the material of the Hos- pital. All appointees to the Visiting Staff of Lakeside Hospital are nominated by the Medical Faculty, are approved by the Trustees of Western Reserve University, and confirmed by the Trustees of the Hospital. All appointees to the Dispensary StafT of the Llospital are nominated by the Medical Faculty and confirmed by the Hospital Trustees. By contract with Charity Hospital, the Medical Faculty nominates all members of the Con- sulting and Visiting and Dispensary Stafif to that institution, and these are confirmed by the Hos])ital authorities. The Medical Faculty has control of the clinical facilities of Charity Plospital and is permitted to use it freely for the purpose of instruction. The Trustees of W ' estern Reserve LTniversity also nominate the entire Visiting Stafif of the City Hospital. The clinical material of this Hospital is used for the teaching of the stu- dents of the School of Medicine throughout the calendar year. The Maternity Hospital of Cleveland is, by contract, the afifiliated olistetrical hospital of ' estern Reserve L niversity. The School of Medicine has unlimited teaching privileges in the Hospital and nominates its Visiting Staff. Each senior student is resident in the Hospital during a part of his obstetrical service. Most of the members of the medical organization of the Babies Dispensary and Hospital are teachers in the School of Medicine : and the training of students in the diseases of infancy is one of the recognized functions of the Dispensary. The trustees of Western Reserve University noniin.ite the entire X ' isiting Staff oi the Rainbow Hospital for Crippled and Convalescent Children, and the School of Medicine has exclusive teaching facilities in the hospital. .10