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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1931
Page
9
The Lorain County Tuberculosis Sanatorium selected its staff after extensive deliberation. Dr. H. F. Gammon, with 22 years in tuberculosis care, leads as superintendent, joined by a county-based team of nurses, aides, cooks, and support staff drawn from Lorain and nearby areas. The release notes careful reference checks and prioritizes local hires due to unemployment and county service obligations.
Amherst Elyria Oberlin and Lorain are represented on the Lorain County Tuberculosis Sanatorium Building Commission which oversaw site selection and construction at Pleasant View between Amherst and Lorain. The group, with county commissioners Murray Rhoads and Peedles, first met December 11 1929 and voted to seek bids from architects while local clubs pledged support.
Dr Gammons authored Practical Tuberculoses for general practitioners and tuberculous care, published by C Vo Mos Publishing Co in 1421. He formerly taught at Buybor University Medical School in Dallas, editing demonstrations, examinations, and lectures for students and serving as superintendent of Woodlawn T Hospital and the Matas City County Tuberculosis Hospital. Louis Pasteur, noted chemist, was once labeled mediocre in chemistry by his examiners at school.
A detailed description of the sanatorium kitchen and support areas. It highlights a windowed north side, extensive food preparation, pastry ovens, a large steam cooker, stock kettle, gas range, meat cutter, and bread slicer. The layout includes a central dishwashing area, electric refrigeration, steam carts, and a passing system to deliver meals to patients.
The article details Pleasant View Sanatorium’s lobby, record room, switchboard, clock, medical offices, superintendent and nurses offices, and patient care areas. It notes sixteen single and thirty-two double rooms, two patient corridors on the ground floor, and room design features such as metal lockers, bed side stands, noise-free doors with hooks, and beds on four inch Colon castors with rubber bumpers to protect woodwork.
The building houses waste products and an apartment above the heating plant. A tunnel will link the power house to the rain building, spanning steam lines and water pipes to the Sanatorium. It is not for public access, only for maintenance as needed.
The X ray department in the new 425000 tuberculosis sanatorium offers top equipment for radiography. It includes stereo and fluoroscopic capabilities, a ventrel stand, a developing room, and easily cleaned asphalt tile floors. X ray images of bones stomach lungs and intestines can be taken for examinations of persons with cyberculosis to aid local physicians.
The Operating Room of a tuberculosis sanatorium on the buildings’ second floor is set up with light, white tile, and stable floors. It houses essential apparatus, tables, instruments, cabinets, a dressing chamber, and sterilizers for artificial pneumothorax and thoroplastic operations plus emergency procedures. A head room for ENT and dental care sits nearby, with a preparation room containing sterilizers and a scrub-up setup. The facility aims to support TB care, not major general-hospital operations.
The Lorain County Tuberculosis Sanatorium describes the Pharmacy Room on the first floor end of the medical offices corridor for routine lab work and drug preparation. Steel cabinets hold chemical stocks, with two weekly nurse checks at each corridor station to refill supplies. Medical items and equipment have been purchased and will meet patient needs.
Dr J Gammons superintendent announces visiting days at the Lorain County Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Official visiting hours are Wednesdays Saturdays and Sundays from two to four and seven to eight in the evening. Holidays follow the same schedule. Relatives will be notified immediately in case of any critical condition.
Lorain county war veterans helped form the Ohio Veterans Association at a pre convention caucus in Akron. The group aims for incorporation as a national body with state departments and about 150,000 Ohio members and over three million nationwide. Temporary officers and delegates from Lorain county were named, with March 19 and 20 set for the first state convention in Akron to approve bylaws and a constitution.
Report notes an armed forces veteran of the United States who served in war and gained naturalization as an American citizen. The record marks the transition to membership in the civilian citizenry.
Grafton Grange No. 1686 met in regular session with a small attendance. Arthur Mason of Wellington Grange spoke on the fair proposition. Jay Palmer of Penfield Grange discussed the 1922 calendar. Next meeting December 17 promises important subjects. Percy Box of Gratton and Mr and Mrs Edmund Witbeck of Riverside attended Ohio State Grange in Sandusky where a sixth degree was conferred on a class of over four hundred. An authorized life of Bernard Shaw by his authorised biographer Dr Archibald Henderson is noted.
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