1922 – Surgical Pavilion, Brandon Hospital, Manitoba

The architects Edward Fletcher Stevens (1860–1946) and Frederick Clare Lee designed hospitals in the U.S. and Canada including Hôpital Notre-Dame in Montreal; Ottawa Civic Hospital; St. Joseph’s Hospital, Toronto; and portions of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. Demolished in 1962.

Described in 1920 prior to its construction:

“Owing to the inadequacy that has existed for a number of years in the present buildings and equipment of the Brandon General Hospital, it was decided by the Board of Trustees to add a Surgical Pavilion to meet the. increased needs of the institution.

As the property on which the present hospital stands was more or less cramped by building, it was decided to build this across the street to the north.

The new surgical pavilion will consist of four floors, the three upper floors for patients and the ground floor for different services in connection with the whole hospital, that is the kitchens, servants’ dining room, admitting and out-patient department, the X-ray and hydrotherapeutic departments and a small isolation unit.

The first floor contains the administrative offices for the whole hospital and accommodation for public patients in small wards from eight beds down. The second floor contains the rooms for semiprivate patients, the average of these being three beds. On the third floor are single rooms for private patients, the superintendent’s rooms and the operating suite.
Each floor is provided with the necessary toilet, sink room and serving accommodation for the care of the patients as well as ample solarium and balcony space.
Food will be served in bulk from the main kitchen by elevator to the different floors as well as back through a tunnel to the older buildings and then by tray service to the different serving rooms.
The heating will be by hot water under forced circulation, steam being brought from the present power house to a point in this building, where will be located the heaters and pumps.
Ventilation will be by means of exhaust flues gathered together in a trunk in the roof space and connected to fans.

The exterior of the building will be of red brick and stone trimmings, only enough of the latter being used to give a sufficiently dignified approach to the whole institution.”
Construction, December 1920

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