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 632 The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [April, the central grass-plat. The latter is 325 by 175 feet. From the front platform, eight steps lead up to the vestibule, and seven steps, inside of the building, to the level of the principal floor. Ten steps descend from the roadway to the pavement around the basement, which, except immediately at the front of the centre, where it is surrounded by a wide area, with sodded banks, is every- where above ground. Engine-House and Laundry. — The engine- house, 71 feet from the nearest point of the hospital building, is a sub- stantial stone structure, 70 by 64 feet, and two stories in height. The charac- ter of the ground is such, that carts drive into the second story, to discharge the coal, directly into the vaults below ; and the level of the railroad in the cellar of the hospital brings it upon the second floor of the engine-house. The first story, at the level of the ground on its southern and eastern side, contains vaults capable of storing near five hundred tons of coal. Adjoining these vaults is the boiler-room, 3D by 17 feet, and opening vinto the engineer's work-room, in which are lathes, grind- stones, pipe-cutting machines, etc., driven ly the engines, wTTieh are in the engine- room, 23 by 19 feet in size, and sepa- rated from the last by a glass partition ; while, further west, also separated by glazed windows and doors, is the fan- room and the tower for supplying fresh air to the main duct, which leads from it, through the entire building. The height of the ceiling in this story is 17 feet, and it is arched, over the engine- room and the engineer's work-room, so as to give a proper support to the stone floor of the room above. In the second story of this building, into which the railroad passes, is the wash-room, 27 by 24 feet ; the room for assorting and folding clothes, 24 by 14 feet; the mangle-room, 43 by 8^ feet ; the drying-closet, occupying a space 26 by 13 feet; a water-closet; and a large room over the coal-vaults and boilers, surrounded by movable blinds, and intended for dr r ing clothes, without the use of artificial heat, for making soap, etc. The Carpenter Shop, 36 by 50 feet, is two stories high, and 45 feet from the engine-house, whence steam may be taken for warming it in winter, and for driving machinery. Size of Rooms. — The height of the ceilings, throughout the building, and the size of the parlors and of all the rooms in the centre building, have been already given. The ordinary size of the patients' lodging-rooms is 9 by 11 feet, while there are some, in each ward, of a much larger size, many of which have communicating doors, and are intended for patients, who desire a parlor, as well as a chamber, or for those having special attendants. The parlors in the first and third wards are 33 by 24 feet, and in the second, fourth, and sixth they are 23 by 30 feet. The dining-rooms are generally 23 by 17 feet. The bath-rooms are mostly 9 by 11 feet. Sixteen rooms in each one-storied building have water- closets in them, firmly secured, and with a strong downward draught. The sides of doors and windows in patients' rooms are generally rounded, by being built of biick, made expressly for the purpose, and smoothly plastered. Windows and Window Guards. — The windows in patients' rooms are almost universally 6 feet by 2 feet 9 inches, hav- ing twenty lights of glass, 6 by 17 inches, in each. In the front wings adjoining the centre, and in the third story of the return wings, both upper and lower sashes are of cast-iron, secured in wooden frames, so arranged" as to balance each other, rising and falling only to the extent of five and a half inches, and doing away with the neces- sity for guards. In the other parts of the return wings, and in the one-storied buildings, the windows are of the same size, have the upper sashes of cast-iron, and immovable, the lower being of wood, rising to its full extent, and protected by an ornamental wrought-iron guard,