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s,12 THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Efficiency And Economy Mark Feeding Of Hospital Patients; Day Returns For Series Of Conferences
Electricity Replaces Hand Labor In All Culinary Operations' Though Still On Year Leave Of Absence

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Refrigeration Plant, Butcher Shop,
Creamery, and Baked Goods
Departnients Maintained
EXPERTS SUPERVISE FOD
Assuaging tle appeltlites of the
numerous patients, staff members, and
visitors at the University hospital is
a prodigious undertaking. As befits
its importance to the success of the
hospital it is accomplished with an
efficiency and an economy of time
and effort amazing to one unversed
in modern large-scale kitchen and
pantry methods. Most remarkable of
all is the manner in which electricity
has replaced hand labor in practically
every operation connected with the
preparation and serving of the hospi-
tal food.
In the sub-basement of the new
building are located the hundred
horsepower electric carbon dioxide
compressor, the expansion pipes, the
condensers, and the electric brine cir-
culation pumps for the manufacture of
the hospital's supply of ice, andrthe
refrigeration of, the. ice-cream freez-
ing room, the vegetable store room,
the meat storage, and more thanr a
dozen smaller coolers conveniently
placed in the kitchen and bakery for
local storage of perishable foods. At
the present time the refrigerating
plant is turning out about three tons
of ice a day, in"additlon to supplying
cold brine to the various coolers. The
sub-basement als boasts an electri-
cally operated pump to circulate water
at a temperature of 190 degrees to
,the dishwashing rooms. This unit is
distinct from the pump which circu-
lates water at 130 degrees to the
wards, baths, and .private rooms.
The hospital, flavors and freezes its
own supply of ice-cream -in a special
room devoted to this purpose. Pre-
pared milk is furnished by a local
dairy, flavored to 'taste at the hospi-
tal, and placed in especially low-tem-
perature compartments where it rap-
idly freezes and is left until needed.
From 300 to 400 gallons are frozen
two mornings each week. The .annual
consumption of ice-cream runs a lit-
tle over 12,000 gallons.
Potatoes, cabbages, and various per-
ishable vegetables are stored in a re-
cently addod subterranean vegetable
rom adjoining the extensive canned
goods department. Fal orders of
canned goods, which are expected to
last until next fall are now being re-
ceived. A carload of canned tomatoes
is the most recent shipment which has
been received. Separate rooms are
reserved for flour, sugar, and similar
bulk supplies. A carload of sugar,
about 60,000 ponnds, lasts three
months. Da -s pphlies are received
directly into a refrigerated compart-
ment. Consumption figures; for bu-
ter are about 120 pounds a day.
A complete butcher shop is also
maintained by'the hospital. The week's
supply of meat, averaging about 5
tons, is shipped in from surrounding
towns every M'onday. Three expert
butchers are kept busy preparing be-
tween 1,50% and 1,600 pounds of meat
a day. An single pork chop lunch
requires 1,800 chops.
The hospital bakery, which supplies
all of the university hospital units, is
a veritable paragon of modernization.
Dough is mixed by electricity in a
huge mixer, and oured out into spec-
ial wagons to allow it to rise. Bread
tins are then filled, and the dough
is baked in a battegy of electric ovens
In which an even temperature of '400
degrees is maintaiied. Every morning,
more that 400 loaves of white, whole-
wheat, and. the various diet breads
are turned out. Last week 1,500 loaves
of whole-wheat bread alone were used
-the biggest run on whole wheat in
the history of the bakery. Yesterday
1.03 pies were baked for consumption
by nurses .and staff members, in addi-
tion to rolls, and cke.
The kitchen also has been largely
electrified. Potatoes are peeled, meat-

chopped or ground, and bread sliced
by electricity.
Kitchen work is speeded up by a
two-horsepower, double-action beater
that can be used to mash potatoes,
whip cream, beat eggs, or make may-
onnaise. Two special boilers are con-
stantly in use for cooking potatoes
alone. A battery of three soup cookers
is also maintained in operation.
Cooked food is kept hot in a large
steam table from which it is dished
out into ward-kitchen wagons. Each
floor of the hospital where patients
are in bed has two wagons which are
supplied wth food and sent by eleva-;
tor to the ward kitchens where indi-
vidual portions are dished out. The
main kitchen supplies all the ward
kitchens, the nurses' cafeteria, and
the general cafeteria for visitors. A
smaller kitchen is maintained to pre-
pare foods for special diets, and still
a third prepares food for the staff
doctors.

Edmund E. Day, dean of the School
ButterfieldBuilds of Business Administration, and on a
New Store Buildino lave of absence for one year,partici-
v pated in a series of personal and of-

Construction of a two story storet
and apartment building on the east
side of State street corner of Liberty
street has been begun by W. S. But-<
terfield of the Butterfield chain of
theatres. The building will be 110t
feet wide and 132 feet deep and willt
be faced with a buff-colored brick. k
Six modern stores will occupy most1
of the frontage space on State street;
and the remainder of the space will ,
be utilized for the type of apartments"
known as "efficiency apartments," de-
signed according to the most modern
trends in apartments of that type.
Miss Luiga Van'zetti, bearing the
ashes of her brother Bartholomeo, ex-
ecuted in Boston, was asked by French
officials to proceed directly to Italy
without any stop in Paris.

ficial conferences with students and
members of the administration last
week end.
Dean Day was granted leave of ab-
sence for the current year by the
Board of Regents to act as administra-
tive head of the Laura Spelman Rock-
fellow memorial for the promotion of
social sciences. This foundation car-
ries on extensive work in the social
sciences, training and developing a
great number of men, bringing over

foreign students in social science to
this country to study conditions, and
making investigations in child study.
All the administrative duties are
executed by Dean Day, who examines'
all applications for requests for aid
by various institutions, directing the
lines of research, and visiting other
institutions in the promotion of his
work. There is a possibility that Dean
Day will also visit Europe in the
course of his duties.
The short stay here extended from
Thursday to Saturday and was in the
nature of a stop-over while traveling
to other parts of the country in the
pursuit of his duties.
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