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I For the most modern and efficient X-Ray rooms COLOR " /COLORS for walls and ceilings of >_/ X-Ray rooms?" you ask. "Why? What purposes would they serve?" Many leading hospitals throughout the country have considered the selec tion of the proper colors for rooms of the X-Ray group much more carefully .than for wards, private rooms, operat ing rooms and nurses' quarters. These are the reasons: The right colors help in doing more efficient work in the fluoroscopic and developing rooms. Colors carefully se lected for their tendency to create favor able mental impression aid in soothing the minds of nervous, and excitable pa tients who are brought to the radiographic and deep therapy rooms, as well as to the fluoroscopic rooms. Modem hospitals have learned that in a deep therapy room, colors some what similar to those which might be used in a bedroom are pleasing to pa tients' eyes and have a soothing, quiet ing effect during treatment. By paint ing walls and ceilings ofthe radiographic room as ifthey were in a hospital recep tion room, a cheerful, encouraging note is added that is beneficial to patients and hospital staff. Here are three samples of what is meant by colors for X-Ray rooms. These three treatments are in actual use today: ForFluoroscopic andDeveloping Rooms --also for Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Room Ceiling ~ A mixture of Venetian red, me dium chrome yellow and lampblack with Dutch Boy white-lead. Sidewalls -- Imperial Tuscan red and lamp black mixed with Dutch Boy white-lead. Trim -- Venetian red mixed with lampblack. The color here is a violet-red with the red predominating. The violet-red is ideal be cause of its ability to absorb the light. The subdued violet tone exerts a quieting effect on the patient. The amount of deep red is just enough to offset any depressing quality the violet may have. Deep Therapy Room Ceiling -- A light yellow just off white. Obtained by mixing French ochre with Dutch Boy white-lead. Sidewalls--A gray obtained by mixing French ochre, lampblack and Venetian red with Dutch Boy white-lead. Trim -- A yellow slightly stronger than the ceiling tint. Obtained by mixing medium chrome yellow and French ochre with Dutch Boy white-lead. Radiographic Room Ceilings-Same as for the deep therapy room. Sidewalls--A. buff obtain! by mixing French ochre with Dutch Boy white-lead. Trim -- Same as for the deep therapy room. The colors for Your hospital These color treatments are in actual use today. But it does not follow that the same ones will be suitable for your hospital. There are so many factors to consider in selecting the right tints and shades that it is inadvisable to try to make the same ones do for several hospitals. Each room should be carefully considered as a separate color problem. Dutch Boy paint for all Our Department of Color Research and Decoration will Help you select the right colors. Color specialists who have made a study of hospital decoration will help you prepare paint specifications. They will furnish color samples of the recommended colors and also painting formulas as they have for hundreds of other institutions. When the proper color is finally selected, you can obtain it by tinting pairtt made of Dutch Boy white-lead and Dutch Boy Ratting oil. You get a beautiful, durable wall finish that can be washed as often as necessary. If you have any questions regarding the proper colors to use anywhere in your hos pital, write our Department of Color Re search and Decoration, in care of our nearest branch office. Our men will gladly work with you without expense to you in select ing a color treatment for your entire hospital or any room in it. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY New York, I (l Broadway Boston, 800 Albany Sr. v Buffalo, 116 Oak Street v Chicago, 90a West 8th Street r Cincinnati, 659 Freeman Avenue r Cleve land, 820 West "Superior Avenue r St. Louis, 7*2 Chestnut Street r San Francisco, 48s California Street * Pittsburgh, National Lead & Oil Co. of Perma., t16 Fourth Avenue i Philadelphia, John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut Street. Reprint of Advertisement from Th e Mo d e r n Ho s pit a l , June, 1927, issue. 0000-NLI-000017661