p. 9 | THE NEW SANITARIUM

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, January 6, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 1

THE NEW SANITARIUM.

We are happy to present to our readers this week a view of the Sanitarium with the addition which has just been completed. The addition is the five story portion shown on the right. It does not here show to the best advantage, the point of view carrying it so far to the rear. From any other direction it really appears as the main building, to which the old main building serves as a magnificent wing. The view is taken as it is for the purpose of showing also the large rear extension of the old main building which appears upon the left.

The new part, only the front of which is shown in the engraving, is, as the reader will perceive, five stories in hight. A capacious elevator makes the upper stories equally convenient with the lower. The first floor is devoted mainly to a large and elegantly fitted up dining hall with tables for the accommodation of some five hundred guests. The other floors are devoted mostly to patients' rooms, pleasant, light and airy, and well ventilated, with the requisite number of offices, etc.

The method of ventilation, many of the plans and devices for which are original with the managers of the Sanitarium, is the most complete to be found in any building in the country. Air from the pure and inexhaustible supply outside, is forced into the building, warmed to a pleasant temperature in winter, and cooled to an equally pleasant degree in the summer, in such quantities that the air in any room can be entirely changed every three minutes, and yet no unpleasant drafts be experienced. Certainly there is nothing more to be desired in this direction.

There is to the new part (not shown in the engraving) a rear extension, 85 by 45 feet, the spacious and airy basement of which affords a most suitable place for the Mechanical Exercise and Swedish Movement department, rendering it free from noise and jar. The entire floor over this basement is devoted to the gymnasium.

The dimensions of the entire building as it now stands are as follows: Length, including rear extension, 475 feet; width of main part, in its several divisions, 40, 46, and 54 feet, respectively; length of promenade in halls and verandas, over half a mile; space covered by floors, over two acres. The addition nearly doubles the capacity of the building, but according to present appearances will only temporarily relieve the pressure of increasing patronage.

This institution, called at its opening, eighteen years ago and until more recently, the Health Reform Institute, and now known as the Sanitarium, has grown to be the largest institution of its kind in the world. And if one seeks for more complete appliances and facilities for treating all manner of diseases, and a more intelligent application of them to the cases in hand, he must seek them on some other planet; for here we have the best that this one affords.

The past year has been the most prosperous of any during the whole history of the institution; and the managers report that the prospect for future success and a larger patronage, was never so good as at the present time. In this the friends of the cause everywhere will rejoice.

The Sanitarium is doing a good work not only in teaching a pure gospel of health and relieving physical ailments, but in bringing many to a knowledge of those truths through which a new and divine life comes into the soul. Especial effort is made to care for its religious interest at the present time; and its managers solicit the co-operation of its friends, and an interest in their good wishes and the petitions they may offer to a throne of grace. Communications may be addressed to the Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich., or to the Superintendent, J. H. Kellogg, M. D.