FED Outlook, Dec 1940, Vol 29, No 12, pp 5-7
The New Manila Sanitarium and Hospital
By Herbert C. Honor,
Medical Superintendent
At various times the nursing staff has included Misses Hyde, Barnett, and Porter. Miss Bessie Irvine is at present on furlough in the United States. Miss Bertha Parker is Superintendent of Nurses. Assisting her are Mrs. Clayton Forshee, and Miss Edna Stoneburner who has recently arrived from the United States.
The training school for nurses has supplied well-trained and efficient nurses for our institutional staff and for our medical field work. At present we have thirty-seven student nurses in the three-year course, six of whom are men. Two of the women came to us from India. Sixteen of our graduates are employed in the institution as nursing supervisors. Twenty-one of our graduates serve outside the Sanitarium, but in connection with the denominational work in the Philippines. Some are serving as travelling field nurses for our mission stations, some as school nurses, some as medical evangelists and Bible workers. They are faithful workers. They conduct large clinics and travel over extensive areas in their work.
The medical staff at present consists of Dr. Vera Ocker-Honor, Dr. R[egalado]. Santos, and the writer. Several well known local doctors including a dentist, hope to join our staff. Many doctors in private practice hospitalize their patients in our institution. We have placed a call for an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, which will be a welcomed addition to the staff. An American dentist would also fill a need.
Mr. Clayton Forshee is Business Manager. He has been even more busy than usual recently, preparing for the grand moving day. Mrs. R. G. Campbell is dietitian and supervisor of the culinary department.
Manila, the capital of the Philippines, has a population of over half a million people, mostly Filipinos, but with large communities of Chinese, Spanish, and Americans, besides other foreigners. This is a city of colleges and of commerce. It has proven to be a good location for our Sanitarium. We treat all classes, the rich and the poor. Village folk come from distant islands with scarcely enough money to pay their fare, and high government officials also come to us for medical treatment. While medical and surgical cases in general are treated in our institution, we are especially well known for our vegetarian diet, hydrotherapy, and for goiter surgery.
The new building is fire and earthquake proof. It is constructed of reinforced concrete. The windows are designed for comfort in hot weather, and the building is equipped with an elevator. Its capacity of eighty beds can easily be increased if business demands this. The general floor plan consists of the main portion and a rear wing on each of three floors, and a roof garden and dining room on the fourth floor over the central portion of the structure. The first floor contains the main lobby, three large wards, business offices, medical offices and laboratory, with pharmacy and kitchen in the rear wing. The second floor contains the maternity and x-ray departments, the smaller wards, and private rooms, with the hydrotherapy department in the rear wing. The third floor is all private rooms with the surgery in the rear wing.
"The wall shall be built even in troublous times." There are times in the providence of God, when the building with brick and mortar has its place in the advancement of His work. This is as true today in the building of a modern institution, where, "shipwrecked souls are to find a haven," as it was in the building of the wall of old Jerusalem for a protection for the people of God. As we view the new Sanitarium, modern in design, and sturdy in construction, we cannot but marvel at the completion of this work, "even in troublous times.
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Far Eastern Division Outlook, VOLUME THIRTY MARCH, 1941 NUMBER THREE
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