Our New Sanitarium

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1907

Our New Sanitarium

There has just come to our desk one of the most tastily gotten up booklets we have seen. It is a calendar, or announcement, of the Washington Seventh-day Adventist Sanitarium ("The Portal to Health"), located at Takoma Park, D. C., of which Dr. D. H. Kress is the medical superintendent. The booklet is well illustrated with a variety of views, exterior and interior, of this latest addition to the sisterhood of sanitariums, and gives in a clear, concise manner the purposes of the institution, its plans of work for the relief of suffering, its numerous advantages, climatic, physical, educational, dietetic, and religious, together with a list of diseases treated, and the facilities possessed by the institution for the accomplishment of its work.

The Sanitarium is a well-built and commodious structure, located in a quiet, sylvan neighborhood. Its very appearance is inviting and restful. Its cool, wide verandas furnish an excellent place for patients to promenade or take the air in their wheel-chairs, while listening to the rippling song of the Sligo coursing along in plain view in the ravine below. It is difficult to imagine, while drinking in the beauties of this sylvan retreat, that only seven miles away Congress is in session, and the activities of a busy city are unabated.

The Sanitarium is well equipped for the work it is designed to do. In the treatment rooms all the appliances of modern sanitarium work are installed, which include electrical appliances of all kinds. Its bath-rooms are as near perfection in sanitary arrangement as they can be made, no wood whatever being used in their construction. The diet of the patients is supervised with jealous care, and all harmful foods and condiments are excluded.

For the educational benefit of the patients the institution furnishes a continuous lecture course on general health topics, and instruction is also given in the art of scientific cookery. The institution possesses a commodious gymnasium, where physical culture exercises and drills are conducted daily for such of the patients as are able to participate in them, special attention being given to the correction of deformities, to proper breathing, and to lung development.

The quiet, unobtrusive religious exercises and atmosphere are specially restful and soothing to nervous temperaments, and the climate of the locality has an excellent record for healthfulness.

We believe that the Washington Seventh-day Adventist Sanitarium has a great work before it in uplifting and upholding the medical branch of the great work laid out for this people.