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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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good condition and well kept.The sick are especially well cared for, as is usually the case when goodnurses are employed. SANTA CLARA COUNTY. Howard Gates, M.D., Superintendent, San Jose. Average number of patients 115 Total number for the year 621 The hospital site consists of 52 acres, located about 3 miles southwestof San Jose. The ground is all tillable and of good quality. There isno garden, and but a small orchard. No stock is kept. This is properly a hospital, and no almshouse cases are kept hereexcept women. The indigent men are all kept at the county almshouse,located at iMilpitas. The hospital buildings are new, having just beencompleted, and at the time of our visit were not yet occupied. Theyare built of wood, are well constructed and well arranged. The insti-tution consists in reality of a group of buildings, connected by enclosedcorridors. If we were to criticise the construction, it would be that thekitchen and dining-room department is located too near the other build-
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154 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. ings. We think it should be placed farther in the rear. There areinclines connecting the upper floors with the dining-room. In all there jare fourteen wards for inmates, and. in addition, about twenty small i!rooms. In the rear is a separate building for indigent women. Thereis also a separate cottage for nurses. The equipment for sick and sur-gical cases is of the best. There is a fine operating room, together Avithdressing rooms, sterilizing apparatus, and every convenience needed ina w^ell-equipped hospital. It is now one of our best county hospitals,and we commend it to other counties desirous of constructing new hos-pitals. It is well lighted, has good water supply, plenty of toilets andbathrooms, good plumbing and sewerage. As it had not been occupiedat the time of our visit, we are unable to say what the management isto be, but we have every reason to believe that it will be of the best. During the construction of the buil

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