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 And Now the Liberty Hospital

Dr. Osborn's plan contemplates sectional struc- tures adaptable for dwelling purposes after the war

WE have the Liberty Motor and the Liberty Truck and now we are to have the Liberty Hospital. Here- tofore hospital buildings have not served any purpose after their usefulness during war. The new Lib- erty Hospital as designed by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Presi- dent of the American Mu- seum of Nat- ural History, may be con- verted into dwellings when the war is over.

A complete model of this hospital was constructed by Mr. H. F. Beers, Superin- tendent of Construction of the Ameri- can Museum of Natural His- tory. The miniature hospital is complete in every detail. The side sections can be pushed out from their accustomed align- ment into a small track at the top of the outer walls on which they can be shoved entirely out of the way. On warm sunny days, the wards of the hospital can thus be exposed, or the panels may be so manip- ulated as to screen half of the length of the wall.

The hospital will be built in five foot units. On one side, and on one end are large porches. The supports of the porches are held in place by devices similar to steel hooka which are used in joining together the joints of old fashioned beds. The veranda roof is made of

��Showing how the panels may be slid one over the other if it is desirable to open up one side of the hospital. Each of the side sections has two windows

���The model of the New Liberty Hospital as designed by Dr. Osborn, of the American Museum of Natural History, and constructed by Mr. H. F. Beers

��canvas and can be rolled up and unrolled

as easily as can the ordinary awning.

The end panels are four feet, nine inches

by eight feet, and the side panels are five feet wide by seveti feet deep. The floor is m.ade in sections of five by seven feet and the ceil- ing panels have the same dimensions. The material which is to be used in these hospitals is cedar, a wood which should last for fifty years. The roof trusses are of steel. They are so hinged that they can be folded into a remarkably small compass which makes transportation

both easy and comparatively inexpensive. The hospital itself may be heated by

���After the war — a cozy dwelling made from a detached section of the Liberty Hospital

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