Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-02
SEVERAL NEW BUILDINGS
TO Be Added to Eastern Maine In.
sane Hospital At Bangor.

of new buildings at the Eastern Maine
Insane hospital at Bangor and when
the work is completed that institution
viii be model of it's kind and canable
Of giving much better care to the m
fortunate insane who are Lodged within
its walls. The great battle fought in
the Legislature last winter gave the in
stlfution working fund sufficient to
provide Tor a new wing which is badly
| needed and several other buildings
Which will greatly facilitate the work
of the institution.
| The largest and most important nro.
Ject for the institution is the erection
Of the new wing for female patients.
For this there is an appropriation OF
| Slo0,OOO. The wing will be from $50 to
| 100 rect long by ~ feet wide. 1t will be
| constructed on practically the same
lines as the other wings and will ioin
the female wing on the west side of the
| building.
The basement of this new wing will
be above ground and there will be a
| sub basement. In the basement will be
| located a dining room with Il seating
| capacity Of about 200 patients With
| this dining room in use the other din
| ing rooms in the main building will be
| abandoned and converted into dormi-
tories which will provide accommodate
| tons for about GO additional female pa
| ticnts in the main building.
The new wing will accommodate from
| 125 to 40 patients, so that with the
| rooms in the new wing and the dormi-
tories provided by taking out the din
| ing room i'll the main building. the in
Stitution will accommodate about 200
| additional patients. All this increased
accommodations are for female pa
tients.
with all these increased accommO-
datOns," said Thomas White of the
board of trustees to the Commercial,
lit will not be many years before the
Augusta and Bangor Institutions will
have 10 be enlarged or another insan"
hospital built in some other part Of the
State. BY a resolve introduced in the
last Legislature all the insane in the
State viii be cared for by the State af-
ter 1910. This means that all the feeble
minded now cared for by towns and in
the city almshouses will be lodged in
the insane hospitals. The number of
mildly insane persons now being cared
for outside of the insane hospital is es
timated to be from 300 to 500, so it will
be seen that the capacity of the State
Insane hospitals must be greatly in
creased within a few years"
The floor plans for the new wing are
now ready and work is being done on
the grades for the construction. 1t is
expected that all the plans will be
ready in 10 days and then the trustees
will advertise for bids for the construc-
ton Of the wing.
There is an appropriation of $4,000 for
a new barn at the Bangor hospital. This
barn will be of wood above the founda-
ton and will be built in the rear of the
engine house. 1t will be used for stor-
ing grain and hay and farming tools
and there will be a cellar for Vegeta-
bleS.
There is an appropriation of $1,000 for
an ice house to store 1000 tons of ice.
Heretofore the ice used by the insti-
tuition has been contracted for at 81
ton. The institution used about 300 tons
year With an ice house attached TO
the institution it is estimated the ice
will not cost more than 80 cents ton
in the house, so there will be big saw
ing in this respect
An appropriation of $500 for two
years is made for the purpose Of an
amusement fund. to provide the dances,
concerts. rides, etc, which are held at
the institution frequently and are much
enjoyed by the patients.
The sum of $500 is set aside for the
construction IF fire escapes on the
buildings and some of these are now
in process of construction.
One OF the very important adjunctS
to the institS.iOn will be the tubcrcu-
Iosis sanatOrum for the erection OF
which there is an appropriation of go
co., This SanatOrium Will be erected
near the Hogan road by the side of tn"
grove. The sanatorium Will consist OF
main building separated into wards Tor
male and female patients with recep-
ton rooms between and in the rear Will
be a kitchen. The sanatorium will ac-
co,nmodate from % to 80 patients on
side.
There is considerable work to be done
at the summer hospital at Chase island
this summer. There is an apprOpria-
ton of $500 for the erection of a build
ing to provide separate rooms for pa
ticnts who desire them. The other build
ings are merely dOrmtorieS and some
Of the patients who have gone to the is
lard want to be in rooms by them
selves. The building will accommodate
from 20 to % patients. The contract for
the erection of this building has been
let to Reuel Noyes of Augusta. There
is an appropriation of $1,000 for the con-
struction of a swimming pool at the is
land. The swimming pool will be con-
structed 50 that it can be filled and the
water warmed so that the patients who
desire may enjoy a swim The pool will
be constructed under the supervision of
DR.. Mcdonald and probably most OF the
work will be done by patients. Fifteen
hundred dollars is set aside for the pur-
chase of a gasoline launch to convey
patients and supplies to the island from
Rockland or North Haven-Bangor
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