Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-27
NEW WARD FOR STATE HOSPITAL
Will be 45x26O and Erected Just South of Ball Grounds Tenement House for Division Sreet-Bngalow on Hedge Avenue.
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Plans are being drawn for a new ward to be erected at the Norwich State hospital. The building will be 45x260 feet, three stories high on each end and four stories high in the cen ter. It will be located just south of the baseball grounds facing the Thames river. The building will be made of brick material with stone trimmings. The floors will be con- crete and the building will be made of f1reproof material throughout.
 In the basement will be located the hydrotherapeutic baths, the dining room, kitchen and boiler room. On the second floor the head physician and nurse will have offices and liv- ing quarters. Also there will be or derly rooms and a reception room.
 The second and third floors will be devoted to three dormitories, day rooms, sun parlors and a number of single rooms. On the fourth floor there will be two dormitories,. tub room, etc.
 The building will be equipped with an electric elevator and it is expected work will be started some time in June.
 The building will be known as the Pyhcopathic or acute ward. All new patients admitted to the institution will first be sent to this ward for their initial treatment and then will be later transferred to the other buildings. Other patients who are in need of observation will be quartered in this building. The building will ! accommodate 100 patients, 50 male | and 50 female, and there will be no ! male nurses in the building. On each floor there will be a male orderly. All the very latest hydrotherapeutic equipment will be installed. The su- perintendent nurse of the training 1 school will have her headquarters i here and nurses belonging to the l training school will be in this build | ing. One special feature of the build 1 ing will be the roof garden, a sort of ] recreation place for the patients and l 1t will be so arranged that patients | who are unable to get out of bed can 1 have their beds wheeled out onto the garden. CudWorth, Woodworth & 1 Thompson are drawing the plans.
 Hedge Avenue Bungalow. Work on the foundation for a bun 1 galow Mrs. Mary Peck is having built 1 on Hedge avenue has been started and l is well advanced. The house will be l 2SE39 feet, one and a half stories high | The attic room will be unfinished. The | interior will be finished off in hard | wood and electric lights, steam heat | and other modern improvements will
 be installed. The outside will be shin | gled and gray neponset shingles will
 be laid on the roof There will be a piazza Sx16 feet constructed and CO., lonial pillars will support the piazza 1 roof
 Housing Company's Buildings. | Seven of the houses being erected | for the Norwich Housing company or i Spring Garden avenue, Thamesville l have been plastered and three have | had the case work finished. The houses on Rockwell street being erect
 ed for the same company are nearly | finished, the grading work is now be- | ing done. Contractor c. M. Williams 1 is doing the work.
 Barn Completed. The work on the barn for the Texas 1 Oil Go. on Erin and White streets has | been completed. Contractor c. M | Williams did the work.
 Remodelling Old SchooIhouse.
 The old schoolhouse located or School street is being remodeled into i a 12-tenement house. Each tenement | will consist of five rooms and a bath | The work is well advanced and is un. der the direction of Contractor Phil. lips.