Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-13

tues are of solid brick. lis water closets.
bath rooms, wash rooms and all sewers
ana waste pipings are perfect and give the
most ready and ample flow and perfect
ventilation. The building is a full four
story brick, with metal roof, and has a ca
paclty for 200 patients when crowded.
The new fire. proof laundry and engine
house built detached from the main build
ing are of sufficient capacity to furnish
the entire building when completed ac
cording to the plan, with heat and to
manage the laundrying for the the 600
patients it can then accommodate. The
east or new wing will be ready for occu-
pancy in a few weeks and will
be at once filed with recruits.
from the overcrowded wards and Temporal
ry quarters at st. Peter, and from the
untenable basement of its own hospital
The old engine room, it should be stated,
has been converted into a kitchen of ample
capacity, connected with all parts of the
entire hospital by tunnel, along
the roof of which the water and steam
heating pipes are conveyed. From this
tunnel elevators convey the food to dining
rooms on each floor. When completed
according to the plan which contemplates
the erection during the coming two years
of west wing, the dupIical4 of The east
wing just completed, designed for the use
of female patients and for which the legis-
ture is asked to appropriate $4,000. the
hospital will have an entire frontage of
663 feet, and will possess a capacity for
from 500 to 600 patients.
The improvements made since its occu-
pancy have been made under the eve of its
superintendent, whose experience while at
st. Peter has enabled him to give the most
valuable advice and assistance to the
building committee. The plans were all
drawn by Horace Horton, of Rochester.
and the building done by Conrad Bohn,
of Winona, and the east wing by Granville
Woodwork, of Rochester, which last gen
tleman has won deserved thanks for the
rapid and honest construction of the build
ing.
MANAGEMENT.
The whole number of patients at this
hospital Dec. 1, 1882, was 236. The num-
Der discharged partially or entirely i'm
ing total treated of 378.
The examination of both institutions by
the legislative committee at both hospitals
ii0o OeoH as before remarked
most thorough and searching
as to their conduct and management, and
so far as they have been heard to express
themselves they were well pleased with the.
way in which the patients were treated.
The attendants are skillful people and are
unremmitting in their attentions to their
unfortunate charges. The food furnished
at both institutions is of a superior
quality and is furnished
for patients and attendants
the same. At st. Peter all the meats are
slaughtered and part fatted on the ground.
At Rochester contract at $5.45 per 100
for beef has been made for the year. In
st. Peter their own bakery supplies the
hospital with everything needed in that
line, and at Rochester one will soon be in
operation. Should the present yearly in
crease continue the present
contemplated engagements to-
both hospitals will be found to be COM
pletely full when our Legislature again as
sembles, and while the strictest economy
ought to be enforced yet it is only neces-
sary to visit and examine this most neces-
sary charity to convince each member of
the Legislature of their needs, and the
GLOBE representative who accompanied
the committee believes they will get what
thew ask