Mayo Clinic ("State", Colonial and Kahler)
Our long suit in this place is to rent a Ford and Bill drives it all
over the place.
Yesterday we were at a sale about 5 miles out and on the way
home called into a stud farm of Holstein cattle
owned by the State Hospital.
It is a wonderful affair. The patients (all mad) milk 150 cows twice a
day by hand and the milk is used in the hospitals around. The bails are
enormous as they bail all the cows at the same time and they always go
to the same bail and their milk is tested etc every time.
Last night I
went to a village dance in town with some girls from the hotel. They are
nurses from the clinic. Bill went to bed.
We have just about seen all there is to see in this place as an old
chap who devotes his life to wheeling patients about for the love of it
[pictured in the center of this photo in front of the Model T Ford Bill rented.]
has taken a great fancy to us and has shown us all over the town.
One
day he took us to the basement of the Colonial Hospital and from there
through a subway to the Kahler [Grand] Hotel.
We went up to the top and saw all over the city from the 14th floor. The Kahler
is a combination affair.
The basement is set apart for nurses rest rooms etc.
The first floor is lobby and offices the next six are hotel
then to the roof is hospital. In a corner of the roof garden
are four operating theatres and while we were up there one of
the theatres was in full swing and was full of doctors watching the operation.
From the
roof we went back to the basement and then more subways to the Damon Hotel
across the street. It is practically wholly devoted to hospital uses.
More subways from there to the Clinic which is 3 blocks away from the
Colonial Hospital where we entered so you can imagine how far we travelled
underground.
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