The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 9

THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1935 Iaeaaseajiajeaaaaaaaa SCHOOL BONDS SCHOOL SUIT Terror Sterilized Out Of Disease Ward; Dread Pest House Fades From Memory phone near the center of the room and was carried by wire to the re cabinets connecting the dining room with the kitchen in some Their yill Be jo Wear fvfSj opl" jfrfSs. Sii fV jTv-X -v V'VSrVVl. I Bos, Asara Bias, cT pish Rao roMi kx SHIRT Is a eool. V. -v ,) 51 sportlns fl for lw-' f.

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tl, iMI loop nack. Small. iff iCt modlom, larga. I Ordered In Norwood. Board Authorizes $22,000 Issue For Building Improvements With Federal Aid.

Norwood Board of Education last night passed a resolution to issue $22,000 in bonds for construction of a addition to Norwood View School and Improvement of other school buildings. H. J. Shirley, Superintendent of Buildings, was authorized to sub mit plans for the project to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Estimated cost of the proposed addition to the Norwood View School is $34,000.

Under the Federal Emergency Relief Admin istratlon plan, the city would put up $15,000 and the Government would provide half the material and labor, leaving $7,000 of the bond money for improvement of other buildings. It is planned to begin work on the project in July, if possible, and to complete the addition to Nor wood View School before Septenv ber, Shirley said. Norwood citizens have protested tor more than a year that the schools are over crowded, he said. Other schools which would be benefited by the project are Nor wood School, Sharpsburg school, Williams Avenue School, and Allison School. cnrcnwATi AETIST WEDS.

KNQU1BE1 9VSXLV SrlOlAL S1SFATCB. New York, June 10 Herman B. Temple, 24 years old, artist, native of Cincinnati, and Esther Schlff-man, 23, New Tork City, were married here today by the Deputy City Clerk, Philip A. Hlnes. Temple, a son of Max and Sophie Braubert Temple, gave his present residence as Brooklyn.

Miss Schlffman, daughter of Samuel and Minnie Berger Schlffman, is- a native of mew York. ceiving set on the nurse desk. The nurse reaches out, presses down a small switch in the black case, and speaks into another microphone: "All right, dear, I'll get you a drink." As she releases the pressure on the finger switch it snaps back to its former position, so that any sounds from the glassed-in rooms again may be carried to her desk. The switch is held down only long enough for the nurse to reply to a patient's call. As the nurse's reassurance reaches Violet through a soft-toned "loudspeaker" in the ward we watch the child sink back, comforted.

There is a microphone loudspeaker set on each side of the center partition, so that patients on either side may be 'heard and may hear easily. Some day, those in charge of the ward hope, there may be a microphone at the side of each bed so that the nurse at the desk can hear each, patient's breathing and judge whether the patient is resting comfortably or is having difficulty and needs aid. The cubicles are booth-like, glass-walled rooms, open at the front, just large enough to hold a hospital cot and a cabinet. Each cubicle is equipped with heavy white curtains which may be drawn along the transparent walls when a patient condition is such that he will be more greatly benefited by privacy than by the silent sociability of the ward. Sunroom For Convalescents.

The cubicle immediately in front of the nurse's desk is used for emergency cases. It contains special instruments, such as those used for opening a clogged windpipe. There is a sunroom at the south end of the ward with several beds for patients whose cases are not serious. Fresh linen is supplied to the ward through a two-way cabinet somewhat similar to the serving homes. One door of the cabinet opens into the corridor along which the orderlies come to deliver the linen.

The orderlies need not enter the ward, since they can' place the linen in the cabinet through a door on the opposite side. The most impressive precautionary measure is a small thing a clip board on the ward side of the glass separating the nurse's desk and the ward proper. Near thu nurse's desk, but in the ward, is a rmooth, metal-topped desk at which the physicians and nurses make out their records. These record slips are put In the clip board, the board Is turned to face the nurse's desk, and the nurse, reading through the glass, transcribes the records to the proper forms. Then the' original record slips are taken from the clip board and destroyed.

They never leave the ward, although every bit of the information they contain does! Older Wards In Use. The bicameral first-floor ward we visit with Dr. Langdon is duplicated on the second floor. As we start back on the long walk to his office at the Burnet Avenue end of the group of buildings we stop in for a few minutes at one of the older wards set aside for contagious diseases. A few years ago it, too, was the last word in modernity, with its separate cubicles and its numerous devices to prevent spread of contagion.

It is still in use, effective and sanitary. But we look for the bisecting partitions, for the automatic for the nurse's lookout platform, for the soft-loud-speakers. They aren't there. Comparing the medieval pest house with these two contemporary contagious wards- is, of course analogous to comparing a cesspool with twin springs of pure water. But comparing the twins Well, we'll take our diphtheria with plenty of glass, thank you.

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Navy, fe. fc5ffi8frSt? SWSrfeX IS to i gJ The Town Shop Presents M0D tnqUsh To Supreme Court Appeals Ruling Conflicts With Fifth District. Sturtevant Company Lien Upheld As Only Valid Claim On Contractor's Account Court of Appeals yesterday held that the B. F. Sturtevant Company has a valid lien for the full amount of its claim in an action to collect $1,217.60.

from the Cincinnati Board of Education on a school building contract, but. ordered the case cer tified to the Supreme Court for final action because the Fifth Dis trict Court of Appeals has returned a conflicting decision. The Sturtevant Company, which furnished materials to a contractor Installing ventilating equipment In a school bouse, filed a claim with the board for $1,217.50 as a balance due. The company also recorded the claim with the County Record er. None of the other creditors on contracts for building materials filed claims.

The contractor agreed to have the Board of Education hold a balance due him to be disbursed to creditors who had furnished materials to the contractor. Other materials men then sought to come in for pro rata ahares of the fund. Common Fleas Court held that the Sturtevant Company had a valid lien, and the only lien. The case went to Court of Appeals. Tbat court finds the Sturtevant lien is valid, that the Sturtevant Company has a right to the full amount of its claim, prior to all other claims, Gus Skulky lost his fight to re verse a conviction on a charge or manslaughter on which he was sen tenced to 1 to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary when Court of Appeals upheld the verdict of Common Pleas Court yesterday.

Through Dudley M. Qutcalt, As sistant County Prosecutor, tne atate chareed Skulky with second degree murder in the death of James Prince. Skulky injured Prince fatallv bv beating Prince's with a brick last October 16. it was testified. Skulky was con victed of manslaughter.

1 In the case of Alexander M. and Sinclair Bain, awarded a judgment by Common Pleas Court for $1,100 against the Hamilton County Com missioners, aa tilling ea iu iuo uam property by the improvement of the Loveland-Madelra Road, Appellate Court affirmed the finding. The upper court in its opinion says it considers the verdict was excessive kut bv reason of the constitutional limitation in cases involving weight of the evidence, the judgment; must be affirmed. Other Decision! Given. Other decisions handed down by Court Appeals yesterday, were: Josephine M.

Whiting to construe the will of Estelle Brockman, petition dls mined a the Court was without Jurisdic. ion the cue on appeal from Common W.A. fl.rrf.h wotkln; Com. Dion Pleas Court Judgment for S4.500 damages for personal Injury held to be excessive, the amount ordered reduced to S3.000. or new iriai win vrviin vs.

William A. Btrohfeldt, verdict for defense Instructed by Common Pleas Court reversed and new trial immlinff and Joyce Company vs. Sloss- Bhef field Steel and Iron Company, Judgment affirmed. Evelyn Westrich vs. Ohio Industrial Commission, Judgment affirmed.

Minerva Whalley vs. American Life and Accident Insurance Company, Judgment affirmed. TTawkina vs Cltv. affirmed. Harmon Hays vs.

Eva Bruggeman, et ml. Judgment affirmed less a credit or dered by Court of Appeals. Movie Actor On Way For Visit In Norwood; Don Brodie, Hollywood motion picture actor, who, while attending school, was an Enquirer newsboy, and later played in the Stuart Walker and Civio Theater Companies, will return June 15 for a brief vacation at the home of his mother. Mrs. Lottie Brodie, 2037 MaDle Avenue, Norwood.

Brodie recently appeared with Jean Harlow in "Reckless" and Paul Muni in "Black Fury." When not free-lancing in pictures he directs "little theater" productions in Los Angeles. He formerly was employed In the main offices of the Procter and Gamble Company. TWO APARTMENTS ROBBED. Clothing Valued At $201 Stolen From Dry Cleaning Truck, Two apartments on the third floor of the Maude Miller Flats, 2457 Maplewood Avenue, were ran-. sacked yesterday by thieves who forced doors with a "Jimmy" to gain entrance.

Katherine Bullock and Zella Smith, occupants, were unable to report their losses until ttyey completed a check of household ar- Three ladies' dresses and two pairs of trousers valued at $201, were stolen yesterday from a truck of the Fentoa United. Cleaning Company, 2243 Gilbert Avenue, at 2651 Gilbert Avenue. Frank Baber, 1252 Sunset Avenue, driver, told police the articles were stolen While he was making a delivery. Thirty-five brass bushings valued at $200 were stolen yesterday from the Torson Construction Company, Gest Street and Millcreek. ncoC IHioHiir'ntf jlrdaeo "cauacuB Tt wit fill 111 a aim neuralgia, muscular aches and pains, toothache, earacne, Kr periodical ana outer pams uuc tn lnnrcanic Causes.

INO flat COticSe 10s and 25C package, By James T. Golden, Jr. Pest house; It is gone now, like the pesti lences that scourged nations and made the phrase a terror. But it Is still fresh enough in the world's memory. No need to go back to the dank crypts, the thin pallets, the despair, and the appallingly lonely deaths that fell to the lot of the medieval plague victim.

No need to go back so far to revive the frightening: associations that the phrase evokes. Young men and women today can remember standing outside some great hospital and looking up at the mottled, bewildered, unhappy faces of children peer ing down through window glass at a group of women in the street be low; heartbroken, sobbing women, women of almost abandoned hopes mothers whose little ones Just had been confined in the dreaded pest house. But the pest house is gone now, and with it has gone much of the unhappiness of its inmates, a very large part of the danger to their lives, and most of the disagreeable connotations it had for those who shivered as they passed its gates, or who stood outside its gates and wept. In place of the pest house is the contagious ward of a modern hos pital We go into the contagious ward at General Hospital, that part of the ward which just has been highly modernized with an expendi ture of $34,000, including a $9,000 Federal grant. If we were a relative of one of the patients, making one of the several visits allowed us each week, we would be swathed in a sterile white gown, without armholes or sleeves and with its hem touching the floor, even before we entered.

Our hair would be tucked under a close-fitting, sterile, white cap. So prepared we would be allowed to sit at the bedside of our loved one. Were his condition critical we might stay, though other visitors left, for near relatives are allowed to keep watch during the darkest hours of the course of a disease. But we are not visiting a patient. We are just looking into the ward with Dr.

H. Harlan Langdon, Acting Superintendent of the hospital, to see what resulted after Dr. A. Graeme Mitchell, Chief of the Pediatrics Department, and his assistant, Dr. Frank Stevenson, prepared plans, for a highly efficient ward for the treatment of persons sunering or contagious diseases.

It is night, and the only light when we enter is at a desk on our left, where a nurse sits marking reports. There are shadows in and beyond the walls of glass that are everywhere in the place, walls that separate the entrance hall and the nurse's little "office" from the rest of the ward. The "office," unwalled on the entry side, is a desk, chair, and a cabinet or two perched on a con crete platform rising more than a foot from the floor level. From this vantage point the nurse can look down into the emergency cubicle just beyond the glass wall in front of her, can look past it into the other cubicles In the row, can look across the aisle to her right into the cubicles that line the other side of the ward, which is divided in two by an airtight glass partition running down its center. She can look onto twenty-odd beds, most of them in individual cubicles.

The glass partition separating the right half of the ward from the left half virtually makes two wards of one. The principal use of this division is to separate measles cases from chicken pox cases, for those two diseases, while not the most dangerous, are the most dif ficult to control in respect to con tagion. Therefore, although the many other safeguards character izing: the ward would make tne spread of either disease nearly impossible, the room has been halved as an ultimate precaution against cross-infection. Since many diseases besides measles and chicken pox are treated in the ward, separation of patients into one side or the other of the ward is not always easily accomplished; nevertheless, segregation is possible in a surprising number of cases. For instance, if child who has had measles is admitted for treatment of diphtheria, he is put in a cubicle on the "measles side," Kince his previ ous attack has made him immune to that disease.

If he has had chicken pox, but not measles, he Is placed on the side of the room where chicken pox cases are under treatment Foot Pedal Efficiency. Doors in the partitions open auto matically by electric power, controlled by pedals in the Foot levers are the order throughout' the ward, since it is a point of safety for both patients and staff to touch as few things as possible with the hands. The faucets in the washbasins outside of every cubicle (the doctors and nurses wash their hands Immediately after leaving the cubicle) are operated by pedals marked "Hot" and 'Cold." Cupboard doors, the lid of the vessel in which instruments are sterilized by steam, the door to the soiled linen chute all are moved by the ubiquitous pedals. While we stand at the nurse's desk we receive a demonstration of what is probably the most interesting and the most modern of the ward's many remarkable acces sories. From a black case resembling a radio cabinet on a corner of the desk comes a child's "I want a d'ink!" We look slightly startled, so Dr.

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