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

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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

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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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TREATMENT RGOM NE UM OTH 0 RAX treatments, emergency cases, and numerous minor treatments and dressings are treated in this department Firland has always had a treatment room. It was at First, of course, on a much smaller scale than at the present ti1ne. Gradually new methods and equipment have been added to meet the need of the ever-growing institution. DRUG ROOM T goes without saying that every well- regulated Sanatorium must have a drug department. Firland's Drug Room came into being in a very small way on that spring day-May 2, 1911- TREATMENT ROOM when the Sanatorium was founded. The department has grown with the institution, moving from smaller rooms to larger 5 adding larger stocks of drugs to supply the growing need of the organiza- tion, reaching out and taking in more work in co-operation with other departments, until at this time it occupies a spacious airy room carefully and neatly planned for the convenience and efficiency of the druggist. P545 DRUG ROOM 'rf---mr Q Q F . :-- W t - so - : I, J X-U-may , ' Ja'