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G7 Hospital authorities are exercising more and * more care today in the selection of die proper colots for decoratinginteriors. With chat in mind this article and the others in the series were written. The previous articles were on red and yellow, while those in succeeding issues will discuss white, blue and green. These articles are by M. Rea Paul, consulting colorist of National Lead Company. EUTRAL %ESTFUL GRAY It can be made to create an GRAY is a color that is suitable for operating atmosphere of warmth in some hospital rooms and rooms, private rooms, wards, and corridors. It has been coolness in others. in another. All that we can do here is suggest the possible uses of a color which should, however, be modified to suit found to have a soothing, conditions varying according quieting influence on pa to the illumination, exposure, tients1 minds. the size of the room and the There are many types of use to which the room is put. gray--ranging from the light est gray, which borders on white, to the darkest gray, Let color specialists help you which approaches black. In OU can with no expense an ordinary room that re obtain the cooperation of ceives a normal amount of our Department of Decora natural light, a gray that re tion in selecting the proper flects 47% of that light gives colors for any room in your the proper amount of illumi hospital or for the entire nation. building. The specialists in But not all rooms in a hos this department have made a pital receive a normal amount study of hospital decoration of light; some get too much, and the therapeutic value at- others too little. A gray, to jjs trib'uted to color. They are serve efficiently as a side-wall working today with hospital decoration in over-illumi administration boards, super nated rooms, should be dark intendents and architects on er than the gray referred to in the reflect the proper amount .of illu the subject, preparing paint speci preceding paragraph. In rooms mination. fications, paint formulas and actual which receive less than normal light, In rooms or wards having a north the gray should be lighter. ern exposure, adding a touch of red Graysfor specific rooms or yellow to gray relieves a feeling of coldness. In rooms haying south SELECTING the proper gray for ern exposure, adding a touch of blue operating rooms is an especially or green to gray overcomes a feeling important matter because it is nec of excessive warmth. essary to get a side-wall treatment that will not distract the surgeon's All colors in which gray predomi eyes. The gray to be used must be nates are easily obtained by tinting carefully lightened or darkened, to paint made of Dutch Boy white- counteract the possible lack of suffi lead and Dutch Boy flatting oil cient illumination or the presence with the proper coloring pigments. color samples. More than 200 hospitals through out the country are successfully using the color treatments recom mended by this department. If you wish further information regarding the service that this de partment can render to you, write to the De partment of Decoration in care of nearest branch. of too much light. But remember that every room NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY What may be considered as two -should be considered as a separate other types of gray are the warm grays and the cool grays, which also may be lightened or darkened to problem. The interiors ofyour hospi tal may necessitate lighter or darker tints or shades than similar interiors Cincinnati, 659 Freeman Avenue; Cleveland, 820 W. Superior Avenue; St. Louis, 722 Chestnut Street; San Francisco, 48$ California Street; Pittsburgh, National Lead & Oil Co. of Pa., 316 Fourth Avenue; Philadel phia, John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut Street. 2636 Page Modern Hospital--March 0000-NLI-000017486