Continuing with last week's photos of Building 519, U.S. Army Hospital in the 1940s.  This is PFC Fred Wood who did us the favor of putting this historic photo album together.  Fred was assigned to the medical unit with the hospital.  Thank you for documenting this grand building for future generations Fred.

In addition to the photos from last week, I am going to post three more photos of the building.  

First below is the hospital staff's day room where everyone took their breaks.  What is interesting is the ceiling.  It has downward tipping sides.  This is because this room is in the attic of the building.  I found it fascinating when I explored this room years ago.  I was just an empty room then.  If you look at last week's photo of the outside of the building, you can see the pitch of  the roof being comparable with this ceiling. 

Next is a real treat with a photo of the hospital's theater.  You can really see the roof's pitch in the ceiling.  This was a high class hospital for sure.

Last photo is the nurses station of ward 5.  This is nothing like the wards in hospitals today for sure.  We have patients partly in the hallway.  Although this hospital was state of the art in it's day, it is still a bit simple.

There was a twin hospital like this on the Atlantic Side in Fort Gulick which stood on the bank of Lake Gatun.