The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-08

At a meeting of the Board Of Trustees OF
the Manitowoc County Insane Asylum held |
Marth 27th- it was agreed upon by them to |
make the following immediate Improvements |
in order to bring the institution into line |
and on equal footing with similar instftu- |
tions in the state.
In the main building a long felt want has |
been larger and more room, kitchen. The |
one they now havc will lie enlarged to |
double its present see, and fitted up with |
all the modern steam cooking utensils, com
prising one 90 gallon soup boiler, one thirty
gallon coffee urn, one so gallon tea urn, one
thirty gallon hot water urn, three vegetable
steam boilers. one gas range for preparing
quick meals for sick in urgent cases.
An attendants dining room is now being
fitted up in the basement. The superintend-
ent's room Is also receiving a new hard wood
floor and new furniture. A Hospital room on
each side, one for the men and one Tor the
women patients, has already been complet-
ed with water-closetS and bath tubs, where
the SICK can be better and more comfortably
attended to.
a ward for keeping the filthy patients
from the better class of patients is now being
arranged.
The heating capacity of the asylum has
since the addition of two wings to the main
building (which was made several years ago)
been inadequate. A new boiler house out
side of the main building will be erected,
size to be 20 by s., which will also contain
the bakery. The four boilers now in the
main bnilding will be taken out ofthere and
| placed i'll the new boiler room. Ground is
now being broken for the building. There
will be additional heating surface added 10
| the boilers to heat the building comfortably
| the coolest weather, which up to the pres
ent time has not been the case.
The building now containing the smoke
| house. bakery, wash house and laundry
combined, is to be entirely Quilted and made
| into modern laundry fitted up with the
| latest and most improved washing machin-
| cry as follows: rotary washer, rotary steel
| Jacketed steam sterilizing washer. This IS
| something new and will be used only for
washing the clothing of sick patients, such
as consumptives and those taken sick with
bowel trouble. The clothing is put in the
washer, n steam pressure of thirty to fourty
pounds is then put thereon. This raises
the temperature above the boiling point as
! high as goo to $50 degrees, destroying all
germ life, thus not endangering the health
of the attendants, and those of the patients
who mus necessarily handle this clothing.
| The laundry will contain four, three section
wash tubs, each having hot and cold water
| cocks and drain pipes, one soap and starch
boiler, twelve rack dry room s #. deep, in
which the clothing can be dried in 45 min
utes, one two tier sad iron stove for IS sad
irons, three ironing tables and boards The
floor in the wash room of this laundry will
be Portland cement, in the ironing room OF
maple wood. The rooms will be heated by
seam, properly ventilated aud have sewer ,
in fact model laundry i'll every respect.
The large brick binding now used for a
hog pen will be builded upon and changed
into combined cold storage house, cream
cry and slaughter house. The cold storage
| room will take up the central part of the
building and will be used for storing meats.
both fresh and salt, butter, milk, eggs, and
everything used which demands cold stor-
age. The east end will contain the cream
cry htted up with cream separator, inn
proved churn. The west end will be nscd
as slaughter house and butche shop All
OF the three compartments of this building
Will have Portland cement floors, cold water
cocks and sewerage. The new hog pens
Will be built about 500 feet away from the
main building, towards the west That
part OF the basement now used for the stor.
age OF coal will be fitted up for a bath room
dressing room, and barber shop, and divid
ed INTO three compartments. The system
OF bathing and washing patients now intro
duced by DR.. Gordon into the Northern
Hospital will be adopted by the board. The
men patients will receive a thorough scrub
bing here each Saturday, enter the dressing
room, receive clean under clothing, take
their shave, and are then ready for thci
work or Their wards as the case NAV be.
1t IS the intention Of the board to remove
the two high enclosures west of the mair
building, in which those patients walk TO
an airing who can not be trusted to 60 gu
without an attendant, and enclose the en-
tire park east of the building with a higl
and tasty wire enclosure, and have thu
used by the patients.
A new system of bookkeeping will bt
adopted. This neceSsitates a large stor,
room. Such large room existed in thu
basement under the dining room, and is nov
being lathed and plastercd, and fitted will
shelving and hard wood floor Everything
purchased by the superintendent for The
asylum will be checked into this store room
and entered upon the property book. When
ever goods, clothing, provisions, hardware
boots and shoes. or anything used OF thu
premises is taken from the store room,
requlsltlon blank will be signed by the pait,
receiving such goods from the store room
} properly signed by them, designating thu
goods or material used, for what purpose
and by what department. These reduisi
tons will be entered each month on thc
property return. This property return vii
at the end Of the year show the entire prod
uce OF the lam in pounds, ard III fact will
be complete abstract of everything pro
| duced, manufactured, purchased, consumed
and used at the asylum, This system o
keeping the accounts of the institution viii
De introduced as soon as the store room i:
ready and an accurate inventory can be tax
en- and entered upon the property return.
The building has already been entirel,
wired and is now lighted by electricity. The
plans for all OF this new work and for The
renovation of the old, were made bv arch
tect Tegen
Some of these improvements had beer
contemplated by the former board Of trustee.
but were postponed because Of other needed
Improvements.