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Paint Transforms Sacramento Hospital OST modernization programs call for the use of of George Briggs, the hospital's maintenance M some paint. Frequently, painting so alters and painter, was tinted to an attractive cream with improves appearance that this part of the pro Dutch Boy colors in oil. The work was done during gram outweighs in importance the structuratlhe summer months to insure a completely dry sur changes being made at the same time. The photo* face and a full month for drying was allowed be graphs on this page illustrate this point. tween coats. Twenty thousand pounds of Dutch Above at- the bottom left is a view of the Sutter Boy white lead were used. Hospital in Sacramento, Calif., as it appeared in Much of the credit for the paint transformation the spring of 1941. Shortly after the picture was of the Sutter Hospital belongs to R. D. Brisbane, taken, construction of a one-story addition to the the institution's superintendent. Since he was front of the building was begun. The addition was named to that position in 1928, Mr. Brisbane has made to provide a modem, enclosed, street-level been a consistent believer in the importance of entrance, thereby eliminating an old-fashioned, paint in hospital maintenance as well as a staunch open-air stairway, and also to house several special advocate of white lead. He recently wrote: ized departments including one of the most up-to- "In twenty years of hospital management, in date "blood banks'* on the Pacific Coast. cluding direct planning for half a million dollars' So that the newer portion of the building would worth of construction and writing painting specifi blend with the old and also to improve the general cations therefor, we have found nothing equal to appearance, the hospital authorities decided to white lead for exteriors on concrete, stucco, or paint the entire exterior of the concrete structure, wooden walls. which was previously unpainted, with Dutch Boy "For interiors, nothing `lays' body odors that white lead and Lead Mixing Oil paint. The highly gradually build up in hospital rooms, like good satisfactory results obtained are shown at top left. paint. We paint consistently rather than wash Despite the extremely absorbent texture of the walls. Many visitors voluntarily remark on enter surface which had weathered for about 20 years, ing that our institution hasn't that `hospital smell.' complete and even paint coverage was obtained. We have used Dutch Boy interior and exterior The paint, which was applied under the supervision paints for the last ten years.'' 8