University of Oregon School of Nursing - Lamp Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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, U sv ' 3 Qffm 353'-..e' 1157! ux0' T521 MEDICAL ScHooL CAMPUS, 1937 the hospital was located in an old building on the Canyon Road, and in the follow- ing year was moved to the remodeled old Smith residence on Second and Hooker streets at the foot of the stairs leading up the hill. Dr. Geary was County Physi- cian, Dr. I-l. R. Cliff his assistant, and Mrs. Emma E. jones, Superintendent. The old hospital was indeed quite an institution. lts capacity was 50 to 100 patients as occasion required, had one phone, no elevators, no adequate Hre escapes, and one of its most remarkable features was the roof garden. When necessity demanded, up to thirty patients could be placed in improvised wards on the roof, consisting of wooden floors and ceiling and canvas sides. Patients had an abun- dance of fresh air and heating was impossible. When it rained, there was always a puddle in the middle of the floor, and doctors had to don coats and boots to go from ward to ward. One interne recalls that the X-ray machine was out of order at the start of his service, but after many months, a new tube was secured and installed. When everything was ready, they took one picture which burned out the tube, and that was all the X-ray for that year. During the war while the internes were away, medical students called externes came down after school to do the work and slept there. Nurses' training started in 1910, three graduating in the first class. Three years later, nursing training was expanding and the undergraduates took over a two- story building next door as a nurse's home. The girls were on the tloor twelve hours a day and had their classes in the evening. lt required three years to com-

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shine, ice or snow, the old bus never missed a trip. Piloted by a Nu Sig, it spent its nights at the fraternity house, then at 29th and Belmont streets. On the 'hrst trip in, the passengers were naturally composed largely of the brothers while many of the rest were passed, turning in the rain at the end of the carline, waiting to be taken on the second trip. Of course, in the winter, the hill could become rather slippery and near-accidents occasionally occurred. Once, after a skid which he barely' stopped at the brinla of disaster, Lindsay McArthur looked around to rind the truck deserted except for the six-footer' who always sat beside him and who, on this occasion, was completely paralyzed. Lindsay 1V1cArthur really had a touching fondness for the old truck and just before Christmas this particular winter, the was concerned lest it might freeze, Now although this was during 'the depths of pro- hibition, the school had plenty of 50-cent alcohol, so he procured some of this from Mr. W. E. Gaines, the building superintendent, to use as anti-freeze. 1V1cArthur had started upstairs with live gallons of the medicinal spirits to meet the Nu Sig brothers who were waiting with small g1as3 conlainers. Half-way up, however, he again encountered Mr, Gaines who, knowing something of the ways of bovs, having been one once himself, tossed in some glycerine and zylol sludge from the path lab, adding that it was potent anti-freeze. In 1923, our patient grew by the addition on the hill of the Multnomah County Hospital, an institution whose genealogy will bear a bit of inspection. ln 1909, 1 OUT-PATIENT CLINIC, 1931 I ! pn ugh,-L' mise: :Rev E 51

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plele the course with a high school diploma as prerequisite. .Xfter a shower ol criticism in the newspapers, confirmed by a grand jury investigation. the County tloinniissioners in 1919 accepted nine acres from the inetiical school upon which to construct a new hospital. The original plan was to build an ll shaped building of 500 patient capacity at an estimated cost of a million dollars. By WZ? the southern half of the l-ll' had been completed at a cost ol' one and a quarter million dollars. There still remained the task of moving the patients up from the old hospital. On August 29, after treatments, the moving started at S200 A. M. and by some miracle of planning and organization, was com- pleted without incident by noon, which the nurses celebrated with a picnic lunch on the lawn. The patients were all housed in the east wing. Third floor West was used as a nurses' home until l927 when the new nurses' hom-e was built, and the patients occupied both wings. The wards of the hospital were now open and convenient for clerkship training during the clinical years of the school curriculum. ln 192-l. our patient spread out with the addition of eighty-eight acres to its campus. The land, part of judge lVlarquam's old property, was the gift of Mrs. C. S. jackson and her son, Mr. Philip jackson, in memory of their late husband and father, and is named after him, Sam jackson Park. ln 1926, our patient again grew by the addition of the Doernbecher Memorial I-lospital for Children. Frank S. Doernbecher was a Portland pioneer furniture manufacturer. When he TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL, 1939 ' ' ' ! 2 ui ,-5' if li! 44522 nav' E531 ...... .. - 1-e 1-