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l* f' to BOY QUARTERLY rop- cCf10* -\\.z iFC` /OTHD TO PRACTICAL AND TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS [PROTECTIVE AND DECORATIVE PAINT COATINGS, .DING MATERIA^ AND OTHER LEAD PRODUCTS Published and copyrighted by NVh o mal Lead Co mpav y , irr Broadway, New York, N. Y. VOLUME 1923 The Use of Color in Nu mb e r 1 i.avuen1 u5 eA tri|tospi.ta1l A FEW weeks ago a New York newspaper con ~ifth Avenue Hospi tained an item to the effect that a juryman tal. They are relics that have been discarded fainted when he heard the word "hospital"`spokeanlong with frigid white walls. Instead every pa \by the lawyer for the defense. Upon being revived tient has a private room with'a spotless private l-fhe promptly fainted again when the word happened bathroom. Every room is an outside one. This t6 be mentioned a second time. Our deduction is is made possible by the plan of the building which that this impressionable juryman was acquainted resembles a gigantic X. A nurse standing in the [. only with the hospital which still clings to the use center can gaze down all four halls without stirring. I'of chill-inspiring whice on its walls. If his experi 1 f the patient only half believed that he was mak(j- ii ence had been with institutions such as the new ing a visit before, he must surely be convinced of * , r Fifth Avenue Hospital, instead of fainting he would it when he is shown his room. Absolutely noth:|.; have beamed with pleasure at the memory. ing about it smacks of the old-time conception of . '..The stanchest devotee of white in the hospital the hospital. Certainly the pleasing gray and blue-" ` f [V would almost certainly find his convictions slipping furniture does not. The bed is no white-enameled , - from him once he visited the recently built Fifth cot, but is an artistically designed modem model, E<ftVenue Hospital at Fifth Avenue and 105th Street, painted in the same French gray and blue. There tew York City. Thos^who have all along felt is a restful blue rug on the floor and the mohair color rightfully belonged there wrould find their curtains are tan with blue stripes. The walls are tffejiefs emphatically upheld. For in this hospital painted a pleasant buff with trimmings of tan. In jk white is conspicuous by being absent. short, the room is furnished with the taste displayed ie senses its modernity immediately upon in a first grade modem hotel. ^entering its spacious, circular high ceilinged lobby. Each detail has been carefully planned to impress " disagreeable odors the patient agreeably. all the sensitive nos- By the inviting aspect of :!s of the newly-arrived the room he is made to P Yg: it nor does he see feel that perhaps a hospi rail anything to re- tal isn't so bad a place Crcr nim that he is ill. after all. So far as his thi ie side of the ro- physical condition will al va a polished glass low he becomes sereneand owd opens to admit him is thus in the" most favor -4 small, daintily fur- able state for recovery. J reception room Especially is this true :s walls painted in of the maternity cases to u . tes of buffand tan. whom'an entire floor is _r - are curtains to devoted. It is obvious . and a wine-color- that in the prenatal g is on" the floor. period the patient should jmiture, of taste be entirely free from a r-designed wood, is ted a deep rich Typical Private Room for Patients in Fifth Avenue Hospital depressive environment. To force her to gaze at 1 -n. striped with light yellow. In this room .I*t tedious white walls and frosty white enameled iron U i.nC ^ SurPhsing if the patienc should feel flna^SLis mcrcIy paying 3 500131 calK 0n other arc small reception rooms decorated in blu<fj*lgold furniture during the long period through which she must wait might easily result in dangerous melan cholia. And afterbirth it might wellbe the reason for the often-time puzzling cessation of the flow of milk. : a -4 2 THE DUTCH BOY QUARTERLY The prospective mother need never fear that she will be ubiecced to any such dreary influences in the Fifth Avenue Hospital. Furniture, curtains, about six feet above the floor and from there'up to the ceiling the wall is painted in a much lighter flat gray tone. The floors are tiled to match the walls. walls and rugs are all one harmonious unit. Dr. \\ oodbury is aware that in some modern hos Tho everything in the room is gay. nothing is pitals a green tile is favored, but feels that gray is vivid or irritating. The color scheme is similar to best. that used in the patient's rooms on the other The kitchen is in the basement. Here the writer floors. thought surely he would find white. But no. Thu- A most interesting feature on the maternity floor immense kitchen with its enormous stoves from is the nursery. Its tiny newly-arrived occupants which appetizing odors were arising, was painted are not ignominiouslv thrust into baskets on gas a warm, semi-glossy cream. A most cheerful color. pipe shelves as in many less enlightened hospitals. In the ceiling are suction devices which carry all No indeed. Each is placed in a commodious fibre odors from the cooking devices into the outside air. basket that rests on a framework that can be rolled and thru other sources a constant stream of around like a tea wagon. Each basket is bordered fresh air is brought into the kitchen. Not a hint of with pink or blue depending on the sex of the infant, cooking odors escapes into the hospital itself. and besides it is gayly adorned with pink rabbits or blue swans. The nursery itself is painted a rich tan and again in defiance to hide-bound tradition there are curtains on the windows. Of course the babe is blissfully unaware of his charmingly decorated quarters but the mother on coming in is not. It helps to strengthen that feeling of content produced in her by her room and thereby helps to strengthen her. Dr. W iley E. Woodbury, consultant on hospital construction and the man largely responsible for the many innovations introduced in the Fifth Ave Here one may observe the dishes, neatly arranged on trays. Their whiteness is relieved by colored borders to conform to the color scheme used in the patients' rooms. It costs no more to do this, Dr. Woodbury pointed out, and it all helps in creating that general agreeable impression which definitely aids in recovery. From the kitchen we went to the dining room of the pupil nurses. A thoughtful person conceived that dining room. If one were led there with his eyes shut, he would be sure, on opening them, that he had been brought into a fashionable Fifth Avenue nue Hospital told the writer that some one had tea room. The walls are painted in buff and tan breathlessly w arned him that those curtains would tints. The square-top tables are finished in a rich, catch dust. "I dark lacquer._ said that's fine," The chairs are a said Dr. Wood Windsor model, bury. "I'd much with frames rather the dust painted a gray settled in the green, and curtains than on spindles a har the infants!" monious yellow. The curtains The seats have used in all the a natural finish rooms are made produced with a of a stout mo ma hogany hair and go stained varnish. through regular From this sterilisation pro brief sketch he cesses along with magnitude of the linen. Their the departure' of color is not the Fifth Ajve- affected by nue Hospital the superheated from musty con steam. vention in the For night lighting in the nursery, lights Because of this highly efficient floor plan every room in the Fifth Avenue Hospital is an outside room. A nurse standing in the center has an uninterrupted new of the four halls from this one position. matter of c ecoration will ibe apparent. Dr. are built in the Wood bu r y *s wall about a foot from the floor, rather than on the ideas have been formulated as the result of a floor itself. This eliminates the possibility of short vast experience in his capacity of consultant on circuiting. hospital construction. He has learned that color The walls in all the operating rooms are covered is a force which like many another, when skillfully with a lustreless French grav tile. These extend handled can be made to render valuable service.