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 i .. ; w. 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. IIlII I NINTH ANNUAL xfie0o N1 . 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