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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 6, 1907

Kansas Sanitarium

By F. E. BRAUCHT

The Kansas Sanitarium, which is located at Wichita, Kan., was opened for the reception of patients in June, 1905. Since that time the patronage has steadily increased, until at the present time it is sufficient to keep the building filled to its capacity most of the time.

The sanitarium building is a modern brick structure. The main building is four stories high, forty-four by eighty feet, and contains offices, parlor, dining-rooms, gymnasium, and guest-rooms, many of which are supplied with hot and cold water. A three-story annex contains the ladies’ and the gentlemen’s bath and treatment rooms, the surgical ward, and operating room.

The institution is lighted with electricity and heated with steam. The equipment of the institution will compare favorably with the best of our institutions. The building contains forty-five rooms, and will accommodate, by crowding, about seventy-five patients, but could not accommodate that many at present, as the entire fourth floor is occupied by the staff of helpers. We have had as many as fifty-two patients crowded into the building, besides accommodating the helpers.

The work was begun in Wichita about six years ago by Brother and Sister L. C. Christofferson. They were graduate nurses from the Nebraska Sanitarium, and began their work by opening treatment rooms and a vegetarian café. The work grew steadily, and the sanitarium methods grew in favor with the public to such an extent that those in charge of the work in the State deemed it advisable to erect a sanitarium, which is located just outside of the city limits, on a beautiful tract of twenty acres of land, about two miles west of the business district, thus securing the quiet of a country life.

The outlook is very encouraging, and shows every evidence of a steady and healthful growth, and a successful future for this institution. Already those who have planted the institution have had the pleasure of seeing several who have entered its domain for the relief of physical ailments, embrace the present truth, which we believe is to be to them an eternal blessing.

It is the purpose of this institution to maintain a high missionary standard, and encourage the young people of this denomination, who may wish to profit by an experience they may gain while connected with it, to devote themselves to practical missionary work. None but Seventh-day Adventists are admitted to its training classes for nurses. At present there are three classes, numbering, in all, eighteen. The following is a list of the officers, nurses, and helpers of the institution:—

Medical staff and managers: Dr. F. E. Braucht and wife, Dr. H. G. Schaumloffel and wife, Misses Bertha McClellan and Estella Secrist, Albert Bland, H. L. Shafer, and Dr. L. F. Fritzgartener. Students in training: Marie Laubach, Edith Davis, Anna Wiebe, Nellie Thompson, Anna Anderson, Minnie Abbott, Blanche Secrist, Etta Nicholas, Alvena Kunde, Mary Gibbs, Florence Maxted, Lizzie Mohr, G. V. Fowler, A. A. Mohr, Linda Chesebro, Ruth Mahurin, Elsie Hiatt, and Gulah Brown.

F. E. BRAUCHT.