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FILE NAME: Baldwin (BALD) DATE: 1940 Feb DOC#: BALD079 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Magazine Article - New Baldwin Dispensary P u b lish ed by THE BALDW IN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS P H IL A D E L PH IA . PA,, C. S. A. E ditor MALCOLM K. W RIGHT VOL. 18 No>. 3 and 1 FEBRUARY, 1940 CONTENTS Samuel Matthews Vauclain................................... A New Baldwin P olicy ................................. The Place of the Diesel-Electric in Transportation . .. Baldwin Diesel-Electric Switching Locomotives.......... Baldwin Diesel-Electrics Powered by De La Vergue . . Electrical Transmission System for Diesel Locomotives Economics of Motive Power for Switching Service no Estimate the Savings ...................................... 28 Baldwin Diesels Since 1925.................................... 31 New Technologies in Transport.............................. 34 w Vi A D V ER TISEM EN TS 1 ? . / * . * ,* Page Baldwin-Southwark Division .............................. 35 Cramp Brass & Iron Foundries Co........................ 38 De La Vergne Engine Co.........Outside Back Cover M td vale C o m p a n y, T h e ............................................... 37 Page Pehon Water Wheel Co., The................................. 39 Standard Steel Works Co............Inside Back Cover Westinghouse Elect. & Mig. Co...............................40 Whitcomb Locomotive Co., The ..............................35 ft New Baldwin Dispensary Greatly Enlarged Facilities Are Centralized in the General Office Building at Eddxstone A fter an inspection of the old first aid stations urinalysis, etc., and a refrigerator for the proper i l at Eddystone, Mr. Charles E. Brinley, Presi preservation of antitoxins and other medicines. dent of The Baldwin Locomotive Works, decided Next to the doctor's office is the dental room that the Company should have a new, up-to-date containing two modern dental chairs, cabinets, ster dispensary. ilizers, and, in fact, everything usually found in a A survey had been made of similar facilities in modern dental office. a number of other large industries and, following An x-ray room and a lead-lined dark room for this, an architect was engaged to draw up complete developing x-ray films, complete the suite of rooms. plans for a dispensary to meet Baldwin's require A dental x-ray machine has been installed, and ments. These called for extensive remodeling of general x-ray equipment will soon be available. part of one wing on the ground floor of the general The floors of all these rooms have been covered office building. Work was started about the first with a special rubber tile flooring, inch thick, of the year and the new dispensary was opened in 12-inch blocks. The walls of the waiting room, for business on April 1, 1940. treatment room and dental room have been lined The entrance leads directly into a waiting room to a height of eight feet with Formica, which is containing equipment for a registration and record one-inch thick plywood with a special covering clerk and chairs for patients. On one side of this which resists alcohol, acids, iodine and similar sub room is a combination stances. A false ceiling wromen's dispensary and about eight inches below nurse's office which, in the original ceiling is addition to office fur covered with 1/^-inch niture, is equipped with Acoustic Celotex which a reclining chair and a has remarkable sound hospital cot. absorbing qualities. Adjacent to the wait The dispensary, at the ing room, on the other present time, is in charge side, is the treatment of a resident physician, room which is believed Dr. Julian A. Sterling. to contain every known Dr. Sterling, however, is piece of modern equip acting only in a tem ment .for the treatment porary capacity until the of injuries ordinarily first of August when caused by accidents in Dr. William D. Frazier an industrial plant. This will assume permanent room has an annex con control. Dr. Frazier is on taining two hospital the Staff of the Univer beds and a shower bath sity Hospital in Phila room. delphia, and the Ches The fully equipped ter Hospital in Chester. doctor's office provides a A registered nurse, place for cases requiring Miss Virginia D. Har- private examination and ner, is on full-time duty treatm ent. It also in during the day; and a cludes a small laboratory containing equipment required for blood tests, Miss Virginia D. Harner, Registered Nurse, and Dr. Julian A. Sterling, Treat the First Patient in the New Baldwin Dispensary. male nurse is on duty from 4:30 P. M. until 1:00 A. M. 2 t i c i f f ^ u -- O *= Q 26