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(Zolor... VNOTE. The new noie in modern hospital! it Mart Cater. The use of lints and shades on walls and ceil ings. in draperies and other furnishings in leading institutions is no longer a question (or discussion. Jc is a fact. And from the use of certain colors has come proof to replace theories and beliefs about their therapeutic talur 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 Reefs, yelloivs. grays, greens, and blues have important place in modern interior decoration. Reasons for their use on walls, ceilings and woodwork............... OLORS have come to st> in the deep therapy rooms, fluoroscopic and deseioptng rooms, C the hospital. Ac first, the use and radiographic roomsof color was an experiment--a test of a theory. Aid in selecting colors Today hospitals throughout the To work with those hospitals which have problems in the 1 country accept color as an aid in selection and use of the proper Colors for a single room or interior decoration, especially of the entire building, National Lead Company has established r 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 fact that certain colors have defi nite value in helping to hasten the mental and physical re covery of patients. A green, for example, when used on "mI!$. tends to exert a quieting, soorhing influence on the boards and architects. Its specialists are equipped to give most careful srudy to each particular problem because the many factors to be considered will diffe. very r and ward and hospital. In addition to rec ommending the proper colors, this nuncK of highly nervous and excited patients. A H'llow helps to produce a Department prepares paint specifica- leelmg of new cheerfulness and iiiufjgt in the minds of patients who h.ivt become depressed and melancholy, and pessimistic of I NEARLY 600 HOSPITALS Colored nails as st nitary as white The second reason for the readier acceptance of color today is the realization that white surfaces are not absolutely necessary to sanitation even where there are tne most rigid requirements. By selecting pure lead paint, made with Dutch Boy white-lead and Dutch Boy flatting oil, and color ing it, a durable, as well as a very beautiful and economical interior finish is obtained, which can be 1 have been furnished svith color treatments recommended by National Lead Com pany's Department of Color Research and Decoration. The following hos pitals are taken at random from the list: Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, III. 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 aad Nurses' Home, Los Angeles, Cal. Walter Reed General Hos pitaI,Washington,D.C. maiion 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 branchFuture articles in this series will discuss in more detail why certain hospitals selected par ticular colors for different rooms and wards. washed and cleaned as often as necessary without injuring the When to use these colors/ The answer is found in the greens already used in wards and mums for nervous. high-strung patients: in the v'llov-on walls ,md ceilings of reception rooms. ,imi,i:tH'cn( wards 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 \u York. 1 1 1 Broidwii Poston. 800 AJbinv Si. Buffalo. lifiOakS:. Chicieo pOOMC'ejt isrhSc. Cincinnati. 659 Freemin Ate. C!r<*lnd. SCO V. Superior Ae, Si. Louis, 022 Chestnut St. Sin Francisco, a 15 Montgomery St, Pittsburgh, National leid 4 Cil Co. of Pi.. 3 iC Tounh Ae. Philadelphia. John T. Lewis & bros. Co., 437 Chestnut 5l Reprint of Advertisement from Th e Mo d e r n Ho s p it a l , January, 192S, issue 0000-NLI-000014004