Pavilion was made up of two wards of 10 beds each, located on the second and third stories. Two fifth-floor wards were dedicated to the treatment of blinding contagious eye diseases until a separate pavilion could be. By way of an example, the upgraded operating rooms, now used conjointly with the Ear Department, enabled surgeons to perform procedures on the auricle, drumhead, mastoid cells, and cranial cavity for brain abscesses. But insofar as there were no adjacent postsurgical wards, patients had to be transported to the adjoining building on Second Avenue at considerable risk.