OCR Text |
Show -5- from springers to keystone. We taught them to lay cement floors - the first ones still have waves to remind us of their crude beginnings, but the more recent would be a credit to any workman. We taught them to plaster the walls, and to paint with rollersprocesses quite unknown to them previously. Erecting the sheet-rock partitions, making shelves and cabinets - all this was new; but most important, perhaps, is the paint, as you will see as soon as you peep into the first room on your left - a two-bed ward, with pale but cheery blue walls. Many visitors and patients have commented on the lift they get from just these bright yet restful colors - each room a different shade, from . violet to green, with cream colored trim and furniture. Over the beds we find conical aluminum light fixtures, operated, of course, by silent mercury switches; the wide double doors of each room are of Philippine mahogany, in natural color. The next room, dusty rose, had been intended for another two-bed ward, but with the promise of an x-ray machine we are setting it aside for that use. At the moment it is being used for a dentist's office, thanks to the State Department of Health. Much excellent preventive work, as well as necessary extractions and treatment, has been done in these two weeks. We pass on to the third room-green-which is the laboratory, and storage room for medications; a sliding door gives access to the examining room (an- ' other shade of green) which adjoins the office - yellow with putty-color trim. It is here that patients are first brought on arrival. Our city visitors are amused to see in the office a telephone such as most of them had never seen except in movies of the gay nineties period-crank, adjustable height mouthpiece, slanting desk shelf and all. Of course, it doesn't "go anywhere," is just a step-saver to communicate with the Mission House, 200 yards away. (Continued back of pictures) |