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Golden .... Bright
YELLOW
Like sunlight on your hospital walls
GONE are the days when white alone was used for hospital walls and ceilings. With the discovery that certain colors were an aid to mental and phys ical recovery from sickness it was learned that some ofthe colors were more effective than others. Yellow is one ofthe more effective group.
The use of yellow today in paint for walls and Ceilings throughout the hospital can safe ly be said to be probably greater than any other color. The reason is simple. Yellow associates itself
of your hospital may necessitate lighter or darker tints than the same interiors in another. All that we can do in this space is to suggest the possible uses of a color which should be modified to suit conditions varying accord ing to the illumination, the size of the room and the use of the room. It is inadvisable to adopt any particular color treatment in your hospital simply because other hospitals have used it or because it may be recommended as standard for all wards, or lob bies, or corridors.
in the minds of patients with the warm, bright, lifegiving qualities of the sun. It has both a cheering and a stimulating effect.
Three types of yellow .
Specialists at your service
YOU can obtain at no expense the cooperation of our Department of Decoration in selecting the proper color treatment for a single room in your hos
AMONG the colors in which the yellow plays an . important part, and which have been used by
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some large institutions, are light yellows, buffs and
tans. Pure white-lead, such as Dutch Boy white-lead,
tinted with yellow, gives the light yellows. The buffs
are obtained by adding to these
light yellows small amounts of
red and black. This mixture is
then deepened to give the tans.
The suitable yellow demand
ed by individual conditions
brightens many wards that
would ordinarily seem cold and
lifeless. Because of its high
reflecting power yellow is often
used to lighten dark corridors.
Buffs are widely used today in entrance lobbies, wait
ing rooms,general offices and dining rooms. Tans can be
found in diet kitchens, laundries, basement store rooms
and utilityrooms as adadowithabuff-tinted upper wall.
All these tints are easily obtained by mixing the
pital or for the entire building. The specialists in this department have made a special study of hospital decoration and the therapeutic value attributed to colors. They are working today with hospital admin istration boards, superintendents and architects, pre
paring paint specifications, painting formulas and color
samples. More than 200 hospitals in
all sections of the country are successfully using the schemes of color treatments recom
mended by the de partment.
If you wish for
furtherinformation, regarding its work and have a decision to make regarding color treatments, write us a letter and address it to the Department of Decoration in care of our nearest
branch.
proper coloring matter with paint made of Dutch Boy NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY
white-lead and Dutch Boy flatting oil. But remember that every ward, corridor and room in a hospital should be considered as a separate problem. The interiors
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This advertisement appears in the following publication:
Page Modern Hospital--February
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