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 630 The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [April, the domestics, a lodging-room for the seamstress, another for the supervisor of the basement, a stairway to the main story, with a dumb-waiter leading from the kitchen to the cellar, and another to the upper rooms of the centre building. The cellars under the centre building, besides containing the hot-air chambers for that division of the house, have three distinct rooms for storage. In front of the basement, and under the steps and adjoining roadway, are the coal vaults for the kitchen and bake-room, and the ice-house ; and carts unload into both, through openings in the blue stone flag- ging, laid upon the vaulting, which forms the roadway. There is also a small kitchen, near the scullery, intended for the superintendent's family, when- ever it is required for the purpose. In one of the store-rooms is a dark apartT- ment, and in another the tanks for the oxygen and hydrogen gases used for the dissolving-view apparatus. On the second or principal story is the lecture-room, 42 by 24 feet, in the lecturer's table of which, water, steam, and gas, for experimental purposes, have been introduced. It also contains com- modious cases_for apparatus, a black- / board running on a track behind the cases, and a smooth surface, 24 by 18 feet, at its eastern end, on which the dis- solving views are shown. On the op- posite side of the main corridor is a reception room for visitors, and a room for visits to patients by their friends, each being 24 by 23 feet. There are also, on this floor, two small rooms for more private visits, the medical office and the library, which is also the assist- ant phj'sician's office, 24 by 14 feet, with a small store-room, containing a sink, etc., adjoining ; the lodging-room for the assistant physician having charge of the medical office, with which it communi- cates ; a general business office, which is also that of the steward, 24 by 20 feet ; a manager's room, 24 by 19 feet, which is also the principal phj'sician's private office; a parlor, 24 by 19 feet, for the use of the officers of the house ; and a fire-proof, 11 by 9 feet, in connection with the general business office. In the third story front are four fine rooms, each 24 by 21 -feet, a corridor, 42 by 1G feet, shut off from the adjoining portion by a partition having sashes filled with ground glass ; a bath-room, water-closet, and clothes-closets, intended for the use of the family of the superintending phy- sician. There are likewise on this floor, chambers for the steward and matron, for the senior assistant physician, three others that may be used as deemed ex- pedient, and a room 24 by 11 feet, light- ed from the roof, and intended for a general store-room for the bedding and other dry goods not actually in use. The corridors of the centre building, running east and west, are sixteen feet wide ; those running north and south, in which are the stairways, lighted from the roof, are twelve feet wide. The height of the ceiling of the base- ment in the centre building, and of all parts of the wings and one-storied build- ings, except the upper story of the wings, which is one foot more, is twelve feet. The ceilings in the second or principal, and- in the third story of the centre, are eighteen feet high. The wings on each side of the centre i building are almost exactly alike, in ar- rangement, except, that on the south side, in front, in the basement imme- diately adjoining the centre, is the iron- ing-room, 28 by 11 feet, with a drying- closet, 11 by 11 feet, attached, and, in the rear, the small kitchen, already re- ferred to, and the lodging-rooms of the female domestics ; while, on the north side, in corresponding positions, are the bake-room, the baker's store and lodg- ing-rooms, and the lodging-rooms of the hired men not employed in the wards. On this floor, on each side of the centre, is also a museum and reading-room, 42 by 14 feet, and accessible, either from the grounds, or from the inside of the building, two work-rooms for the pa- tients, two lodging-rooms for persons