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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hospital, for the care exclusively of babies under two years of age, is designed to be the most complete and perfect of its kind in the world. It will accommodate fifty patients, allowing for each bed an unusually large amount of room and air space. Within the hospital will be a memorial laboratory, equipped by gifts from members of the class of 1901, for the scientific study of infants' diseases--both for purposes of practical medical investigation and for the instruction of students in the Harvard Medical School. The hospital will contain also a laboratory for the scientific modification...
...Corporation has decided not to carry into effect the four-dollar insurance plan of conducting the Stillman Infirmary this year, the minimum number of two thousand registrations not having been made. The existing arrangement whereby patients pay two dollars a day for a bed in the ward, board, and ordinary nursing, will be continued through the year...
...should be sufficient demonstration that the Infirmary is already rendering efficient service. The increase in sickness of the winter months will broaden its field of usefulness. It is to be hoped that the splendid gift of Mr. Stillman, which has made possible the offer of the University to provide bed, board and nursing at the Infirmary for the nominal sum of four dollars, may meet with a response which will at least reach the two thousand registrations necessary to put the plan into operation. Such a sick insurance is an opportunity of which many individuals in the world at large...
Under either plan of payment such accommodation shall include, for each patient, a bed in the wards, board, and ordinary hospital nursing. It shall not include medical attendance, it being expected that patients will be attended by their own physicians; but needy students may be attended by the Medical Visitor without charge. An extra charge shall be made for the use of private rooms and for special nursing, except that if the proper treatment of a patient who has assumed the annual fee of four dollars necessitates his isolation, he shall be accommodated in a private room without extra charge...
There will be a large addition to the library space on the second floor and on the third floor there will be committee rooms and private dining rooms. The fourth floor will contain bed rooms, a roof garden and several squash courts...