The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-07-31

! are ABOUT ono hundred rooms IhpSt
II re- arranged into wards 50 that Oh,
patients in each ward have access to
tho sleeping rooms, dining room.
sitting room, bath room and water
closets without going out of their
wards. With less than half dozen
unimportant exceptions every room
in the house has one or moro heat
hues and vantilating hucs.
About one hundred anl liftv feet
to the rear Of the centre building is
the boiler and engine house. Of an
irregular shape aud partly only one
story high, covering twelve thousand
one hundred and eighty six squpr,
feet. In this building are the boil
crs, engines, machine shop. fan
rooms, laundry bakery, carpenter
and paint shops, sto,c rooms for coal
and vegetables.
The second story an1 attirs are
fitted up as dormitoiics for nll the
outdoor help Some five hundred
yards from these buildings. nearer
the river, are located the gas works
aud pump house. The gus holder
has capacity of ton thousand cubic
feet and the rctorts and connected
apparatus are of Il corresponding
size. From the North Branch of the
Sus1uchauna through nm eight inch
cast iron pipe the water is thrown
by II duplex Wor'hington pumping
engine upwards Of eight hundred
yards INTO two reservoirs. each cnpI
BILE of holding nj one time nearly
half n million gallons, located aboyo
the level Of the highest part OF tho
roof of the buildings.
At present there is room for one
hundred and twenty five patiepts
of each soN, or two hundred aul fifty
in all. To acrpmolatc this uumbrr
will require as much crowling rs clu
ever tie justified il the welfare of tho
inmates alone is taken ~ the crltc-
ron
The plan Of the completed building
which according to law was approved
by the Governor, and for the further
erection of which some consi lcrahlc
preparation has already been made,
makes it eleven hundred and forty
throc feet long. How urgent tho de
Xani for the erection of the winps.
80 far rs they are incomplete is, may
be seen from this fact. The first
patient was admitted on the sixth
day of November, Of last year Dan.
ing the less than eight months IN
which the hospital has been in opcr
alton, one huulrclaul seventy two
patients have been under treatment,
OF these one hundred and forty cirht
remain, of which one hundred aud
one are males ; 40 that there is room
for twenty four additional male pa
tlcnts only
4 year ago last winter when il was
urSoi IN the Legislature that appro
shoulder mllo b. coup.a..,
the buildings rs rapidly u, possible.
tho measure was defeated on the
ground tlpt thcre was enough room
Tor the present The short sighted |
ness OF tins position is proved by the
Il'tS above stated tltt one s.Ie %,
the building, that for mllos, IS a.- F.
really nearly full, and that two years
must ut Ioast oltpsa before the pro .
posed buildings can be liuishnlfyr uc. .
cupdnts. IL should be rcmambersi .
thdO tha most costly part Of the wor. .
mas been done, AMI that in That plr,'
"i the building winch rcmlus to b.
erected ID complete the original pluu
ono thousand dollars will pat M a.
much room for PATIENTS rs heretofore
Cniee thousand dollars have done. for
Hicl thai has letn G'ccta /, such IA.
wafer AMI gas works cugine house. .
yenJIlating machinery, Laundry, Ac. /
Wlll answer for six hundred and fifty
patients rs well as for two hundred /
and fifty The farm, the building
now completed, the foundations laid /
for part of the new wings, the
stone ready for these on the spot, the /
water and gas works, tho sewerage
and roadi, the ventilating aud heat
ing are costing the State five hun
dred aud fifty thousand dDllars half
that much moro put into buildings
Will proyid1 acc pmmo latons for four
more patients. For part
Of these aecommo latlons patients will
bo loudly calling, within the pre-
sent year, and they Will have to do
without them ut least eighteen
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