The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-29

CIOSS COTlluOT ~ u fireplace OF roman DrlCk,
and the space will serve as a comfortable
sitting room " for the occupants OF the
ward. The ward has a bathroom, lava
tory and water-closet provided with the
Huber automatic apparatus and store
room Tor clothing OF patients, spaced and
labeled with name OF each The walls of
! the rooms and corridors are wainscoted
with white wood, the floors are of the hard
woods of Vermont, the doors and castings
are OF pine, and all are finished in their
natural color Tiles cover the floor in the
precincts devoted to cleanliness. Patients
rooms, corridors and every part of the ward
are provided with the means of effect
i've ventilation, supplemented by freplaces
on each floor, and at some hour of the day
God ssunl1ght can enter every room, not only
of this but of every other part of the asylum.
A description of this ward applies to the
others in this wing. Through the three
stories of the building, ending at the roof
| in ventilator, is a drying shaft heated by
steam and dust shafts at intervals along
the corridors conduct the sweepings to the
basement. A two-inch stand pipe with
one hundred feet of hose in each ward af-
fords protection against fire. The reservoir
that supplies the buildings with water is
high up on the hills, and the supply and
pressure is ample for protection. Besides
the rooms for the accommodation of one or
two patients mentioned above, there are on
each floor of the wing two dormtories with
capacity of six or eight NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
cheerful rooms with bowed fronts and
ample window exposure, the envy of the
sane visitor. The capacity of the three
wards Of the wing is ninety patients.
THE CRIMINAL WARD.
Leaving the easterly end OF the wing, a
| two-story corridor turning to the right leads
to the criminal ward-a twostory building
seventy five feet by thirty-two feet and
having capacity of twenty-five patients.
! Leaving the corridor we enter the day
room," large and pleasant apartment
with spacious fireplace, opening to the
daylight easterly through wide bay win
| dow. From this room corridor extends
westerly, parallel with the axis of the
wing. On either hand are the rooms
! for the patients. The second story is sub
stantially duplicate of the first. The
sanitary arrangements, the finish, the gen
eral construction of the criminal ward are
like those of the wing. An enclosed yard
will be provided for the accommodation Of
| this class of patients. In the construction
of this ward the trustees have obeyed the
mandate of the law requiring a separate and
! distinct building for the criminal insane,
though for purposes of convenience in adj
ministration it is connected by corridors with
! the other wards.
THE CIRCULAR WARDS
A oue-story corridor 10S feet in length ex-
tends in the direction of the long axis of
the wing, terminating in the circular wards,
| arranged in the form of clover leaf and
UWO SlOTleS Ill ublpnJ. Along IulS COTTluOT
are pleasant rooms in which patients may
meet friends. The rooms at the center of
this corridor will, however, until the COM
petion of the central or administration
building, be used for the asylum officers,
Before entering the circular wards, the visit
or's attention is attracted by room of gen.
erous dimensions and inviting appearance
at his right adjacent to the corridor. This
is the common diningroom for the inmates
of the Glover leaf" At one end is large
fireplace, with its suggestions of cheering
influences; at the other are the connections
with the food-making realms below, china
closets and the needed convenenceS of a
dining hall. The room though not luxuri-
Gus in its finish, is exceedingly pleasant
and would make a superb dining-room for
hotel. In this corridor are also bathrooms,
lavatories and water closets. passage
way at the left leads to the first member of
the clover leaf arrangement Its diameter
is fifty feet. Daylight streams into the
ward through sixteen large windows, from
every point. The first story is the day
room, the second the dorIntory. At the
center of the building is placed the ar
rangements for ventilation and heating.
The center is a shaft of boiler iron two feet
in diameter. This is the avenue of the ven
tilatng currents. Around this are the
fiues for warming the wards. The ventilat-
ing apertures at the floor take the foul air
from the room; above come in the currents
of fresh and heated air. Around the outside
!
directly. Here again are cheerful looking
freplaces for warmth in milder weather
and for supplementary ventilation. These
wards are designed for the chronic insane,
those of mild type of lunacy who require for
their treatment gentle influences and cheer
, full surroundings. Adjoining the corridor
connecting the circular wards is the sun
. room" an apartment somewhat resembling
! a conservatory and designed as place of
! recreation in cold or stormy weather. 1t is
hat of frV Ntlh
fetal heat. The second or central number
of the "clover leaf" is like the first. The
third exists as yet only in the architects
plans. The capacity of the wards is twenty
, five patients each.
, HEATING AND LIGHTING.
The asylum will be heated by hot water
3 and lighted by electricity. The heating ap
3 paratus is put in by the Middlesex Machine
Company, of Lowell, Mass. For indirect ra-
: diation Colds pin radiators are used. The
3 boilers are Mills sectional cast iron boilers,
j. III. Mills patentee, an expert engineer,
who is personally supervising the work OF
: putting them in. The Grant Electric Motor
3 Company, Portland, is putting in the plant
= for lighting. O. b. Story, superintendent
: of the company, is a native of Johnson,
) VT, and is attending to the work in person
CONSTRUCTION, ETC.
, Upon well-laid foundations of local stone
! and on an underpinning of Barre granite, the
Walls Vi DllCh DuIutu near luo lOCdllly Ol
! the asylum are reared. An outer wall
! eight inches thick, an air space of four
inches and an inner wall OF four inches
constitute the shell of the structure.
All the partitions are OF brick, eight
. inches in thickness, and proceed from base
ment to roof. Ward 81 Douglass of Barre
| pat in the foundations The superstruc-
? ture is the work of Clinton Smith, the Mid
Q dlebury contractor.
Q The plans for the completed edifice con-
: template central or administration build
t ing in which the officers will have their
3 residences. This building will connect the
: wing now built, and adjoining it westerly
, will be the second wing. In the rear Of the
central building will be the permanent
a kitchen and laundry will be built con-
: Meeting with the boiler house. For the
: present, kitchen and laundry are located in
: the basement Of the wing and in the base
ment of the criminal ward are built the
refrgerators
, The superintendent of the asylum is DR..
Il w E. Sylvester, native of Bethel, who
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