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Color... NOTE. The new noie in modern hospitals is Mart Ctler. The use of (inis and shades on wa[|j and ceil ings. in draperies and Other furnishings in leading institutions is no longer a question for discussion. Ic is a fact. And from the use of certain colors has come proof to replace theories and beliefs about their therapeutic value This article and others to follow are written to help spread knowledge of what has already been done in hospitals In putting colors on walls and ceilings and wood trim. the new note in the modern hospital Reds, yellows, grays, greens, and blues have important place in modern interior decoration. Reasons for their use on walls, ceilings and woodwork............... OLORS have come to stay in the deep therapy rooms, fluoroscopic and developing rooms, C the hospital. At first, the use and radiographic rooms. of color was an experiment--a Aid in selecting colors test of a theory. Today hospitals throughout the To work with those hospitals which have problems in the country accept color as an aid in } interior decoration, especially of selection and use of the proper Colors for a single room or the entire building, National Lead Company has established walls, ceilings and woodwork. a Department of Color Research and Decoration. This de : There are two reasons for this partment has already served nearly 600 hospitals of all types already widespread acceptance of throughout the country through superintendents, hospital color. The first is. the scientific boards and architects. Its specialists are equipped to give fact that certain colors have defi most careful srudy to each particular problem because the nite value in helping to hasten the mental and physical re many factors to be considered will differ in every room and covery of patients. A green, for example, when used on ward and hospital. In addition to rec nulls, tends to exert a quieting, soorhing influence on the ommending the proper colors, this minds of highly nervous and excited patients. Department prepares paint specifica- A \ cl low helps to produce a incline of new cheerfulness and formulas courage in the minds of patients and actual who h.i't become depressed and color sam melancholy, and pessimistic of NEARLY 600 HOSPITALS ples of the rcco m - have been furnished with color treatments mended C.olored nails as sanitary as white The second reason for the readier recommended by National Lead Com pany's Department of Color Research and Decoration. The following hos pitals are taken at random from the list: colors. If you wish fur ther infor acceptance of color today is the realization that white surfaces are not absolutely necessary to sanitation even where there are me most rigid requirements. By selecting pure lead paint, made with Dutch Boy white-lead and Dutch Boy flatting oil, and color Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 111. Chicago Lying-In Hospital, Chicago, 111, Michigan Stare Sanitarium, Howell, Mich. Hudson County Hospital, Jersey Ciry, N. J. Clearfield Maternity Unit, Clearfield, Pa. Vermont State Hospital for Insane, Waterbury, Vt. Brooklyn State Hospital (Creedmore Div.), Creedmore, L. I. Children's Hospital and mation on how the Department of Color Research and Decora tion can help you select and use the proper colors, address it in care of our nearest branch. Future articles in this series will discuss in more detail why certain hospitals selected par ing it, a durable, as well as a very beautiful and economical interior Nurses' Home, Los Angeles, Cal. Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington,D.C. ticular colors for different rooms and wards. finish is obtained, which can be washed and Cleaned as often as necessary without injuring the paint. Where to use these colors.' Theanswensfoundinihe greens already used in wards and mums for nervous, high-strung patients; in the yellowy on walls and ceilings of reception rooms. ,iir.> .ilevCcnt w ards and rooms for the hospital staff 'nurses especially); in the grays of operating rooms; and in the reds used for interiors of X-ray rooms, NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY New York. 1 I 1 Sroadwit Poston. 800 Alban.' St. Buffalo. tlfiOakSl. Chicico 903'k"ej! IfirhSc. Cincinnati. 6 59 Freeman A'e. Clnelincl. 830 V. Superior Ave. St. Louis, 722 Chestnut Si. San Francisco, j j s Montfomerr St. Pittsburgh, National leid & Cil Co. of Pi., } 16 Fourth Av*. Philadelphia, John T. Lewis 4: Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut Sl Reprint of Advertisement from Th e Mo d er n Ho s p it a l , January, 192S, issue 0000-NLI-000014004