Boys' ward in new building, Orthopedic Hospital, Lincoln
Description
Patients occupy the metal frame beds lined up against a wall of windows in this ward. Interior view of a hospital room that has iron beds with patients in them in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. A nurse, a boy on crutches, and another male stand at the far end of the room. The windows have no coverings, the floors are wooden, and electric lights hang from the ceiling.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Sixth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Orthopedic Hospital, Lincoln, Nebraska" In Second Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1916 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 344-345.
Historical Notes
Although its focus was children, the hospital also helped indigent adults. In the 1915-1916 biennium, 580 surgeries were performed. The most common surgeries were the removal of adenoids and tonsils, but surgeries were also performed to treat fractures, hernias, hare lips, burns, spina bifida, and tuberculosis of the hip, knee or spine.
