WAUPACA COUNTY POST

March 24, 1921

NEW CITY HOSPITAL COMPLETED AND ALL READY FOR SERVICE

The new brick hospital built by Drs. P.J. and A.M. Christofferson at the corner of West Lake and Washington streets is now completed and the first patient was received Tuesday of this week.

The building is solid brick and stands on a prominence one block from the highest point of S. Main street in one of the most desirable residence sections of the city and only a short distance from Mirror Lake.

Besides ample accommodations for office and operating rooms on the first floor and an electric cabinet and bath on second floor there are nine rooms twelve feet three inches by nine feet six inches equipped with one bed each though the rooms are as large as those in many hospitals where two beds occupy one room.

An elevator and a dumbwaiter will make it convenient and easy to move from basement to one of the upper floors a patient or any article needed from the kitchen which is located in the basement. In the basement also is the dark room where the latest X-ray apparatus and a full equipment for developing of X-ray photographs are conveniently arranged.

The enamel finish in operating and bath rooms, the tasty finish in the rooms for patients, are evidence of the careful study to make this one of the most homelike hospitals available to the public.

The housekeeper and the nurses will be local people and everything will be done to cater to the needs of the people living tributary to Waupaca. Miss Bessie Larson, a graduate nurse, is already on duty and others will be called into service as required.