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 628 The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [April, the different heads, it will be proper to note the points of the attached ground plan, or, rather, underground plan, fol- lowing the letters, in regular order, through as condensed a description as will suffice to give our readers a clear comprehension of all its parts. This plan shows the entire Cellar, with the arrangement of the Steam Coils in the various Air-Chambers, all of which are beneath the Corridor, with the Cold Air Duct in the centre, which is a continuous line from the Fan, at the En- gine-house, to the eastern end of the farther Wing, a distance of more than one thousand eight hundred feet. The plan also represents the cross- walls or divisions of the ground plan proper, or first floor. A is the Corridor ; opening from which is the Main entrance, with the Air-Chambers represented in the shad- ing, in the cellar, beneath it. B is the Kitchen, on the ground floor. C and D are Store-rooms, on the same floor. E is the Trunk-room. F, Clothes-room. G, Dining-room of the domestics. H, the Officers' Dining-room. I, House- keeper's Room. J, Store-room. K, the Scullery. L, the Cold Air-Duct. M M, Railway ,That extends from the Laundry to the extreme end of the building. N N are the Gymnasiums, and 0, the Outmost Wards for the most noisy patients, with P P, the Yards, at- tached to the latter. R is the Fan. S, the rear end of the Boilers, where these last connect with the underground Flue, that leads to the Chimney. T designates the Engineer's Work-room ; in the rear of which is the Engine-room, containing the Steam-Engine, the Pumps, the Gas Metre, etc. V is the Coal Vault. Figure 1 is the Main Chimney, en- tirely detached from every portion of the edifice, above ground. 2 is the Boiler Flue, with the Culvert beneath it. 3 is the Culvert from the eastern end of the building. Over this Culvert, lies the Ventilating Pipe, leading from that por- tion of the pile to the Chimney. 4 and 5 likewise are Drains, with the Ventilat- ing Pipe above them. 6 6 are the Cess Pools or Inlets for surface drainage. This Hospital faces the west; and consists of a centre building, with wings running north and south, making a front of 512 feet, of other wings, connected with each of those just referred to, run- ning east a distance of 167 feet, all three stories high, and these last having, at their extreme ends, communications with extensive one-storied buildings. All the exterior walls are of stone, stuccoed, and the interior are of brick. This arrangement gives provision for the accommodation of sixteen distinct classes of patients in the entire edifice. , Each one of these sixteen wards has connected with it, besides the corridors, for promenading, and the chambers of the patients and attendants, a parlor, a dining-room, a bath-room, a lavatory, a water-closet, a urinal, a sink-room, a wash-room, a drying-closet, a store-room for brushes and buckets, a clothes-room, a dumb-waiter, a dust-flue, and a stair- way passing out of doors, if desired, without communication with the other wards. Every room in the building, almost without exception, has a flue communicating with the fresh- air duct, for warm or cool air, according to the season, and with the main ventilating trunks, in the loft, which terminate in the various ventilators on the roof of the building. The centre building is 115 by 73 feet. It has a Doric portico of granite, in front, and is surmounted by a' dome, in which are placed the iron tanks whence the whole building is supplied with water. The lantern on the dene is 119 feet from the pavement. In the basement, or first story of the centre building, are the main kitchen, 42 by 24 feet, in which are improved ar- rangements for cooking ; a scullery, 24 by 11 ; two store-rooms, each about 20 by 22 feet ; a trunk-room, 24 by 12 feet ; a general clothes-room, a bread-room, a dining-room for the officers, another for