The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-12
FIND
OVERLOOK PLANT
MODEL ASYLUM
Great Series of Buildings Erected
to House County's Insane
Almost Ready.

Viewed from Grove avenu which
runs from Verona through the valley
between the high Montclair ridge OF
the Orange mountains and the wooded
ridge on the west. the group Of new
buildings for the Essex County Hos
pital for the Insane, called the Over
brook Hospital, make a picturesque
sight. The freeholders found il so late
yesterday, when they made their Of
hcial visit, ending in a supper at the
new $1,000. 900 institution last night.
The original brick hospital, with its
wings on the south and rear is far up
the mountainside. On a high terrace.
or plateau, above are the new brick
cottage buildings, to which the patients
III the hospital in South Orange avenue
this CITY. are to be transferred In
patches after July l. These two-story
brick structures extend along the ter
rae half a mile, and a wide corridor
runs through the middle of the build
lngs from the south to the north end
of the row. The hospital building is in
the centre of the row, and on each side
of it is a sun-parlor building, in which
patients can get the benefit of sunlight
in the winter.
The buildings for violent and quiet
female patients and their main dining
room are south In the hospital build
ing, and the cottages for violent and
quiet male patients are on the north
side. The three-story administration
building is several hundred feet west
OF the hospital. These buildings are
connected by a two-story
OF brick, ten feet wide. The first story
Will be used for a food runway, the
food 10 be run on trucks from the
Kitchen. The second floor will be used
by the doctors and nurses in going 10
and from the two buildings.
A smaller brick structure, with an
oval runway on the first floor. extends
from the main kitchen at the south end
Of the plant to the north end, connect
ing with hospital and administration
corridor and runway and another that
runs to the buildings for male patients.
All these corridors, with their angles
mi turns. are said to be two and one
fifth miles long. The long one that
runs along in front of the administra-
ton building forms a brick wall fifteen
feet high, enclosing the two very large
ards for recreation in pleasant
weather, the corridor running west
from the hospital. dividing the yard
for females from that for males.
tack of the administration building
and further up the side of the ridge
there are in the woods the cottage for
female nurses, the amusement hall and
the cottage the general superintend-
ent, DIR. Daniel NJ. Dill, and family will
occupy when he has removed all
patients from the old South Orange
avenue building.
On the first floor of the administra-
ton building are Superintendent Dilrs
public and private Office. The office of
the home medical staff adjoins that of
the superintendent. South of the re-
ception room is the dining room for the
doctors and a buffers pantry. There
are fifteen rooms on the second floor,
including two dining rooms and eight
bed rooms. There are fourteen bed
rooms on the third floor. There is an
extra room on the second floor in
which there is the second largest X-ray
Machine in the United States. The
medical record room has rows of large
metal boxes, n Zach row is locked by
the turn of a key in one lock. There
is also a fireproof vault. and the
steward has one in his office also. The
reception and rooms for examining new
patients are in the administration
building.
Water is supplied by the Montclair
Water Company from a great tank on
the mountain ridge above that town.