Firland Sanatorium School of Nursing - Fir Log Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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4--uv -- - rv-f ffl- f- wh- :H -b - -I. .. : g ..,. -- t -,' THE ISOLATION DEPARTMENT HE Isolation Department was established at Firland in 1916 after the closing of the old Isolation Hospital in Seattle. This division is under the control of the City Health Department, Quarantine Division, and all admissions are made from the City Quarantine Division direct to Firland Ofhce. These patients remain for a period of four to six weeks, depending upon the severity of the disease, and then released by a City Health Physician assigned to Firlaud Department. Contagious cases are grouped according to the disease and nurses assigned to relative groups. This department has a well-equipped surgery to handle any emergency opera- tion that may occur among these cases. The soiled linen, clothes and mattresses are put in a large sterilizer and dis- infected through a formaldehyde process. The trays and dishes are sterilized after each meal in a large kitchen equipped for this purpose. All the contaminated articles Qnot of usej and waste are burned in the inciiierator. ISOLATION HOSPITAL 153.- T3 .-.fpgywig is

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if .15.2.L.5:lR,r-S 5 i DIETARY DEPARTMENT HE duties of the Dietary Department at Firland Sanatorium are carried on in one main kitchen and live ward hospital kitchens. 'These are in every respect modern with all facilities for practical and efhcient dispensation of the food. The patients in Hospitals I and H, and Isolation are served by tray from the Ward kitchen which receives its supply from the main kitchen in food carts. Nurses serve the patients individually. Convalescent patients have a separate well- aopointed dining room with cafeteria service at Hospital Ill. The children are building, Josef House. Their dining room is Fittingly deco- with small group tables and high chairs for babies. This room is designed to please the eye and to accommodate the children. The nurse's dining room in the Administration served in their own rated and equipped colorful little dining varying ages of the Building is spacious and attractive. A delightful fireplace lends a cheery warmth to the atmosphere. A wide beamed ceiling, deep windows and ferneries add to the pleasantness of the room. An alcove from this main room furnishes a small dining room which is used on occasion by administration and guests. Still another dining room is devoted to the use of the other employees and enjoys the same service as the nurses. A graduate dietitian supervises the preparation and distribution of all the food including various special diets which are prepared in the main kitchen. Every effort is made to serve delectable, well-balanced meals with as great a variety as the season permits, and to eliminate or avoid as nearly as possible, tiresomeness in the menu. gqfaqv A . .qty Rx 4 X J T TEX K -'ffki ' .Irv-eq., I, A' DIETARY DEPARTMENT -52-

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X-RAY DEPARTMENT UR X-ray Department was established in its present location in 1928. It has since that time taken care of all the X-ray and liuoroscopic work for the entire institution. In building the X-ray Department every precaution was used to make it mod- ern, safe, and easily accessible. It is built partly underground-located in the tunnel half way between the Administration Building, Josef House and the Main Hospital. It is fitted with leaded walls for the protection of the operator and patients. It is operated by an expert roentenologist who takes all the pictures. The electricity for this department is conducted in on a separate line from the rest of the institution. ' This makes it possible for the operator to always have a known uniform electric power with which to carry on his work. It is conducted in on a 210 voltage wire and goes through the silent VVappler transformer where the power is stepped up to the necessary voltage for roentenology work. The VVappler X-ray and Huoroscopic appliances are used entirely. The Muller tube is used for both horizontal and vertical X-ray work, while the Radiator type of tube is used in the lluoroscopic work. All in all, our X-ray Department is one of the most important, as well as one ofthe most interesting divisions in the diagnostic routine in noting the progress of the tuberculous condition of all patients. if Q ,nigga E X LABORj'1TORY ' -. 1 -si- .-.-.Q as