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 1869.] Descriptions. 631 employed in the work-rooms, a bath- room for the officers and another for the domestics, two water-closets, etc. The portion of the wing just described is shut off from the adjoining part (which con- stitutes the fifth Avard) by a partition with thick ground glass ; this ward hav- ing in it a large room, 29 by 24 feet, with a bath-tub and water-closet in a recess, another 24 by 14 feet, a third 23 by 11 feet, and five rooms 11 by 9 feet, a bath-room, drying-closet, and all the other conveniences already mentioned, as forming a part of each ward. These apartments and arrangements are in- tended for patients who are particularly ill, and require special quiet and seclu- sion, where they may be visited, if deemed expedient, by their friends, with- out annoyance to others, or interfering with the discipline of the house. Besides the fifth ward, just described, and which is on the first floor, there are on each side of the centre, two other stories, each of which constitutes a ward, and with all the conveniences already referred to. The rooms are arranged on both sides of the corridors, which are twelve feet wide, and have their extreme ends mostly filled with glass ; while, wherever one wing joins another, there is entirely across it an open space for light and air, eight feet wide, glazed with small sash from near the floor to the ceiling ; and in the middle of each ward, on one side, is a similar open space, all of which may be used for keeping flow- ering plants, birds, etc., for having small jets of water, or any other objects of in- terest, and which in excited wards, may be guarded by ornamental wire- work. Each story of the return wing makes a ward similar to those just described. Passing from the return wings into the supervisor's office, the one-storied buildings are reached. Each of these has provision for twenty-six patients and six attendants, and every arrange- ment for their comfort. The rooms are here on one side of a corridor ten feet wide, and at the end of each of those running towards the east is a cross hall, in which are three rooms, intended par- ticularly for patients, who, from any cause, may require special seclusion. One of the main halls is used for dining, and the other as a sitting-room. Be- tween the dining-halls of these two wards, (the seventh and eighth,) and made private by sliding doors, are four rooms intended for excited patients, who have special attendants. Opposite these last is a room 110 by 14 feet, with an arched ceiling, 15 feet high, with sk} 7 - lights and windows out of reach, in- tended to be used as a kind of gymna- sium, and accessible either from the ad- jacent garden and yards, or directly from the wards ; and in the story below this is a room of the same size, in which are two fine bowling-alleys, with reading- tables, etc. Both these rooms may be well-lighted with gas, and warmed by steam-pipe, so that they can be com- fortably used in the evening, as well as by day, and in all kinds of weather. The arrangement of these one-storied buildings makes for each, two very pleasant yards, in size 110 by 54 feet, surrounded by broad brick pavements, and having grass in the centre, with an open iron palisade in front, giving an extended view of the grounds. There is also a yard, 343 by 72 feet, adjoining- each sixth ward, fitted up as the others, and planted with shade-trees. Brick pavements surround the entire building, making, with those just referred to, and those in front, a continuous walk of 6,152 feet. Entrance. — The entrance to "the De- partment for Males," is from Fort}-- ninth street, between Market and Haver- ford streets. The gatekeeper's lodge ■ has two comfortable rooms on the north, while on the opposite side of the gate- way is a dead-room, and another for tools used about the grounds. Brick paths, on either side of the main roadway, lead to the centre building, and the space in front planted with evergreen and orna- mental trees, and having a fountain in