Pudding Facilities Offered For 3rd Infirmary Center

The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1776 agreed yesterday to put its facilities at the disposal of the University Health Services. The first floor main hall of the Pudding building will be converted into a third Asian Flu infirmary center when Stillman and the 47-bed Freshmen Union infirmary have been filled.

Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, renewed his appeal for "urgently needed" volunteers to aid the medical and nursing staffs at the infirmaries yesterday.

In response to the appeal, the PBH General Hospitals Committee will attempt to recruit "about 100" students to work round the clock in five hour shifts. The Committee hopes to put about four or five volunteers on each shift. The present members of the PBH Hospitals Committee will form the core of the group, but more students and wives of faculty members will be needed to fill the required quota.

Forrester A. Clark, Jr. '58, President of Hasty Pudding, said that the organization's main hall has a capacity of about 40 beds. The hall can be shut off from the rest of the building, and was chosen because of its kitchen and sanitary facilities, and its closeness to the Hygene Building. The operation of the infirmary center is not expected to interfere with the Pudding's regular activities.

"We are very pleased with Hasty Pudding's cooperation, and feel that they deserve commendation for their good attitude," Farnsworth commented. He emphasized that the new center will not open until the Freshman Union infirmary has been filled.

Farnsworth said he hopes that it will be unnecessary to open any further flucenters. "If enough students receive care in their rooms, or at home if they live nearby, our present facilities should be sufficient," he said. Students being cared for by family physicians will be allowed ten dollars for the cost of diagnostic visits.

There have been no indications of plans to close the University when an epidemic strikes. Brandeis University, in nearby Waltham, has already decided to close for ten days because of an epidemic there. At Williams College a quarantine has been declared.