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THE CORNELL INFIRMARY.
The mansion of the late Hon. Henry W. Sage was in 1897 presented
to the University by his sons Dean Sage and William H. Sage, to be
known and used as the Cornell Infirmary. To this gift the donors
added an endowment of $100,000, and during the summer of 1898 they
refitted the mansion for its new purpose at their own expense.
The building is a structure of Medina brownstone 96 x 88 feet, in
cluding verandas and porches, and three stories in height besides a
basement. A wide hall runs through the first floor from south to
north, having on the right a sitting room for young women, the
dining-room, pantry, and kitchen ; on the left the library, which will
be used as a room sitting for young men, the Matron's office, bath
room, lavatory and telephone closet, and an emergency room. On the
second floor are four large rooms for the sick, two
large bath rooms, a small nurses'
kitchen,
nurses'
rooms, two
a large room for surgical
work, with an instrument room containing sink, cold and hot water,
and a slop closet, not connected with the bath rooms. On the third
floor is the Matron's room, two large rooms for patients, two
rooms, three
servants'
rooms, a bath room,
nurses'
nurses'
kitchen, slop
closet, store rooms, linen closets, etc. The basement contains a
servants'
laundry, bath room, and the heating apparatus.
The house is supplied throughout with both gas and electric light
ing ; and heated a system of by hot water. The height of the rooms
in the first story is 12^ feet in the clear ; that of the rooms in the
second story is 11 feet ; and the rooms on the third story are io> feet
in the clear. There is also a high attic. There is a balcony opening
from one third-story room, upon which a bed can be rolled, and there
are large verandas.