A Haven for Rest and Healing.
By Editor
While on our visit to Southern California, we were pleased to visit for the first time the Glendale Sanitarium, located in the city of Glendale, eight miles from Los Angeles, reached by two electric lines, with a twenty-minute service. The climate is most excellent, clear and dry, and the grounds about the sanitarium are beautiful and pleasant. The main building accommodates about sixty patients, with commodious offices, parlors, dining-room, etc., and treatment rooms. The new hospital, remodeled in the last few months, nearly doubles the capacity of the sanitarium, and furnishes a new surgical ward, containing twenty-six beds, a medical ward of twelve, and twelve new private rooms. The operating room is large, well lighted, and completely equipped. The working staff of the sanitarium numbers about eighty, of which forty-eight are nurses. The sanitarium is conducting a high-class nurses' training school, giving a two years and three months course, the class work running the year round. There seems to be an earnest and enthusiastic corps of workers, and a helpful, united spirit in the sanitarium. Being close to the large and growing city of Los Angeles, they have a great variety of cases, acute and chronic, which enables them to give large experience to their nurses. During the past winter there have been from twenty-five to thirty on special duty. Then, too, they are doing a large amount of missionary work in visiting the poorer classes in Los Angeles. The school is affiliated with the Florence Crittendon Maternity Home, where nurses spend some time. Bible classes are held daily, chapel exercises for the workers each morning, and worship morning and evening with the patients. The Lord has especially blessed this institution during the last two years. In past times it has had difficulty in meeting its expenses; but it has become known now, and is on a prosperous basis. 664 new patients were in the institution during the last year, and 16,806 treatments were given. We are sure that any of our friends who may be in that section and wish to spend a few days in resting or treatment, will find it profitable and advantageous to go to the Glendale Sanitarium. The members of the faculty are: J. J. Wessels, manager; Dr. D. D. Comstock, medical superintendent; Dr. H. F. Rand, surgeon; Dr. Belle Wood-Comstock, lady physician; C. F. Marvin, chaplain; Mrs. Dora Basnett, matron; Mrs. Lillian Santee, head nurse.