. Around and about South America. hose of thelungs seem to predominate. The hospital is under thecharge of about twenty Trench Sisters of Mercy, with aMother Superior. The visiting physicians are all native Pe-ruvians. Entering, through huge bronze gates, beneath animposing arch of brick and white stucco, I walk upon a mar-ble pavement to a large court-yard, filled, as usual, with flow-ers and plants surrounding a fountain. Directly opposite theentrance is a small chapel with a handsome sculptured pedi-ment and a gracefully swelling dome, under which, by allodds, the most beautiful altar in Li
. Around and about South America. hose of thelungs seem to predominate. The hospital is under thecharge of about twenty Trench Sisters of Mercy, with aMother Superior. The visiting physicians are all native Pe-ruvians. Entering, through huge bronze gates, beneath animposing arch of brick and white stucco, I walk upon a mar-ble pavement to a large court-yard, filled, as usual, with flow-ers and plants surrounding a fountain. Directly opposite theentrance is a small chapel with a handsome sculptured pedi-ment and a gracefully swelling dome, under which, by allodds, the most beautiful altar in Lima is to be seen. It is ofpure white marble, with gold and silver ornamentation, sev-eral good statues, and a marble railing. Radiating from thegreat circular garden are twelve huge wards, each named inmemory of some saint, and containing a double row of sim-ple iron bedsteads. The floors are of asphalt, and light andair are freely admitted by large windows. At the fartherend of these wards, and forming a vast quadrangle exterior. LIMA. 59 to the hospital proper, are the offices, the quarters of the at-tendants, the kitchen, laundry, baths, dispensary, operatingand dissecting rooms, etc. Everything is of the most per-fect description, the best of its class, and even luxurious inmany details. Thus the baths are all of white marble, andso are the laundry-tubs. Everything is scrupulously the wards are more gardens, and also before theouter buildings, which are faced by a wide, paved corridorwhose total length must be nearly a mile. Pipes bringspring-water from the hills, and at high pressure flush thedeep stone drains. This splendid hospital is situated at sucha distance from the busy part of the city as to have all thebenefit of the pure air and quiet of the country. There is amost refreshing moral and curative effect in looking fromthe open wards upon the beautiful gardens with their sweet-ly singing birds and softly murmuring fountains. One couldnot often find a b
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