Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1905 — The New Methodist Hospital. [ARTICLE]

The New Methodist Hospital.

The corner stone of the new hospital which is being built in Indianapolis by the Methodists of the state will be laid with impressive ceremonies by Governor J. Frank Hanly, assisted by other prominent Methodists, on the 25th, of this month. This building when complete will be one of the finest structures for hospital purposes in the state, It is of fire proof material throughout, and of the pavilion plan of architecture —the most approved plan for hospital construction. It is to be modern scientific in all its appointments. In this first building there will be accommodations of sixty five beds. On the firstjloor there will be the offices, reception rooms, the rooms for physicians and nurses and a chapel. On'the second and third there will be the public wards and private rooms. The operating rooms will be in an extended wing which will form a separate pavilion. A canvass of the Methodist churches and other philanthropic friends of the movement is now' being made of the state by Dr. C. N. Sims and Rev. A. H. Delong, the secretaries of the Hospital.