San Francisco Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Seal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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The Laundry Department GYQ ' HE Laundry Department is a very important one in the many departments - of the San Francisco Hospital. It is thoroughly equipped with the latest improved types of machinery, and it is the equal of any hospital laundry. e There are 38 persons employed in the laundry. This plant not only laun- ders the linen of the hospital, but also the linen of many other branches under the jurisdiction of the Board of Health. Some idea of the volume of work done may be had from the following figures: Year ending June 30,1925-2,317,718 pieces finished-every description. Year ending June 30, 1925- 600,000 pieces finished-personal linen. Year ending June 30, 1926-will be 25 per cent more Capproximateb. During January, 1926 the Laundry handled: 50,000 Hat pieces 8,000 pieces personal laundry. The linen is washed carefully in accordance with the standardized methods adopted, after years of careful study, by the National Laundry Association. No chemicals are used, and as a result the wear on linen is reduced to a minimum. The utmost economy is exercised in the use of supplies. The repairing of the linen is done by the Sewing Department, Which, acting in conjunction with the laundry, is very eflicient in lengthening the life of the linen. No linen is condemned until a rigid inspection proves that it is no longer serv- iceable. Page 83

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Power Plant Goh!! PERSONNEL Mr. Charles Berg, Chief Engineer Four Assistant Engineers Four Firemen One Engine Room Helper Our Power Plant consists of four Heine, two hundred and fifty horsepower high pressure boilers, four General Electric Curtis steam turbines with direct con- nection to General Electric generators of two hundred kilowatts. In other words, the plant consists of two power units, one of which is in operation at all times. Crude oil is used for fuel. Oil consumed 1924-1925, 22,200 barrels or 932,400 gallons. The boilers are operated at one hundred and seventy-five pounds pressure. This plant furnishes power for sterlizers, steam tables, laundry, elevators, lights, heating and refrigeration. The exhaust steam from the turbines is used for heat- ing the hospital. There is also an ice machine which makes ten tons of ice each twenty-four hours. There are eight refrigerators attached to the refrigerating sys- tem, including the large cold storage meat room. THE BOILER Rooivf Page 82

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Z ANNE M. Fovra, R. N. Supervisor of Nursing, Tuberculosis Assistant Szzperintendeni, San Francisco De Jarlme t 1 n . Hospital. NIAURICE A. FLYNN Tuberculosis Department This hospital has a bed capacity of 275 beds. There are ten wards in this hospital-eight for men and two for Women. A department of 60 beds for children is now being added to the building, thereby increasing the bed capacity to 335. THE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF! An assistant superintendent of the Hospital An office attendant MEDICAL STAFF: 3 visiting physicians from each university 2 house officers Cone from each universityj 2 internes NURSING STAFF! 1 Supervising nurse 12 Head nurses fone for each Ward and 2 night supervisorsl 12 Practical nurses 25 Orderlies Patients having pulmonary tuberculosis are cared for in this hospital. Tuber- culosis of the bones, glands, kidneys, etc., is treated in the General Hospital, ww 3 4 eng, . TP1'f'4s J' 1 1.21 ,-vi ' 5 S . 5 H .. I vii-wwfawfsI-'aw-54.,.i .1 P' 41:21 11:1 zz-f E I - N ' H . , ., 'IUBEHCULOSIS , HOSPITAL A jf ,:g.,':!-,A-:'-iz :fa-gsaw' --'- 1 -V ' 'f ' Q :V -f ' - ':f +121-qv ,f.1,5': ,,-.fr -1 3.14 u A , ,,,3,, .,A.,..:,,- 5 ,lv N K-M -- - ' .Z -'fs aa:,,,- ...H +2S,2rgrri'-f' th H 'llttitzile-1-vi.Q-'fiwi1'L- L 1.1, .e,- . L-,f 1, 0-H, L ,lu mi iii g, I , ,...,:- W-99,3 wif' .E UF-f f- U '1 J '-it 4:1 FA 1 L, - rf- -- aa, 1 ,eg if I p 1 li A A a t t --..:.,-,.. ,....m V 1: '- 5' 1-4... M KA K ri-Sqn, if Q L f ,. I mv-...., , ,M ' T' '?,L1:' f . 3 V ,. , , A--Q... . 4, , - . A A ff'f2ff'.g5f-iz' ,, -- I . A - ?V':.u5wli gre: 51, ' . . - 5?3fTll'1f ?f',fv4413' ' .15 . -' ' ' 1-' - ' - 1, if -'Nik .L ' 1 -.gap I -i 135- . ::.. 4-y-435' Page 84