The New York Times/1918/11/11/Lebanon Hospital Change
LEBANON HOSPITAL CHANGE
Additions Being Built and its Facilities Enlarged.
Lebanon Hospital, in the Bronx, is enlarging its facilities for the care of the sick, it was announced yesterday. The changes are bine gmade under teh direction of W. H. Abbott, the new Superintendent, who succeeded William Daub, who retired recently. The interior of the hospital is being rearranged and redecorated and new private rooms and a maternity ward are being added.
Lebanon Hospital has just passed through a very trying time with the increase in sickness and with so many of its doctors and nurses in service and others too sick to attend to their patients. Notwithstanding this handicap the hospital opened its doors to all who needed its care and advice. The Medical Board was one of the first to recognize the seriousness of the influenza epidemic. Restrictions as to visiting, special care in isolation of those sick with influenza and pneumonia, and other precautionary measures were immediately adopted. The hospital announded yesterday that, with the epidemic on the wane, it will again open its wards for general treatment.
The training school for the nurses is launching a new scheme whereby any young woman acceptable to the management may be prepared for the nursing profession free of charge and yet receive the monthly allowance for pupil nurses in training. Full particulars may be obtained by writing to the Superintendent.