Richest Hospital

Doctors Hospital, probably the most expensive private hospital in the world, was completed last week in Manhattan. To it will be sent, by 180 rich Manhattan physicians and surgeons, the wealthy patients whom they organized some three years ago into a corporation to build it. This week patients will be admitted. Lowest charge for the use of a room is $8 a day, highest charge $45. The building cost $4,250,000.

The officers and directors of the corporation include the J. P. Morgan & Co. Partners Thomas Cochran (hospital president) and George Whitney; Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co; Frederic William Allen of Lee, Higginson & Co.; Percy Avery Rockefeller. The doctors on the directorate are Albert Richard Lamb, Alexander Lambert, Alfred Townsend Osgood, Joseph Storer Vheelwright.

Since a hospital includes many of the functions of a hotel, the Doctors Hospital proposes to emulate the best hotels in its provision for the comforts of the rich, with charges to match their purses. Thus, each of its rooms (it has no wards) has its private bath, its individual refrigerator. Rugs, chintz curtains and pastel-tinted walls give a cozy atmosphere. All beds are of wood. All medical and surgical equipment are of course the most modern and efficient. Patient-guests have at their convenience a barber shop, tailor, florist, public stenographer, telegraph office, newspaper & magazine stand, drugstore, gymnasium, library, solarium, a roof garden, restaurant, lounge rooms, private reception rooms.

An entire floor of rooms is reserved for business associates, essential employes, friends, relatives. Interior decorations were sponsored by Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin. A French chef will provide nourishment.

On the ground floor of this unique institution is an honest salute to the tradition of medicine. The salute consists of an emergency room for free first-aid to anyone injured in the neighborhood.

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