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

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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-

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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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Q 4 M15 A K ' . ' J 'il 2352 .J .A Niki 1 1 5 A '-1f' ' 1 vu LIBRARY AND AUDITORIUM, 1939 , passed away in 1921, he bequeathed 3200,000 to his son and daughter to be used for charitable purposes as they saw fit. His daughter, Mrs. E. W. Morse, had been active in the children's work of the original People's Institute, and this probably more than anything else influenced them to give the money for construction of a chi1dren's hospital. Other individuals gave additional gifts totaling more than 3l25,000 to enlarge and equip it. When completed it was an eighty-bed hospital, and stood as a separate unit to augment the medical school group. Speakers at the dedication ceremony in july, 1926, were Mayor Baker, Dr. Dillehunt, Dr. Bilderback and Miss Grace Phelps. In 1931, our patient began to notice pain in the lower region of? the Portland Free Dispensary, still located downtown on jefferson street. The flood of patients was again overflowing the facilities which by this time had grown to a valuation of over 350,000. This was augmented by a gift secured from the General Educa- tion Board of New York to build a new half-million-dollar Out-Patient Clinic on Marquam I-Iill. The new clinic was built, connecting the Doernbecher and the County l-lospitals, and in addition to its out-patient service, unified the hospitals by providing a common record department, X-Ray laboratory service for all clin- ical departments. This relieved our patient of the pressure for a time, but there are now over six hundred patients a day coming to the Out-Patient Clinic for care. The .year 1939 found our patient growing still larger. The State Legislature appropriated 3110,000 and the Federal Government 3130,000 forthe construction v 3 293 ages' 122 ux0' 1541