Friends' Asylum for the Insane, 1813-1913 : a descriptive account from its foundation, list of managers and officers from the beginning, facts and events in its history with appendix.

  • Friends' Asylum for the Insane.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Friends' Asylum for the Insane, 1813-1913 : a descriptive account from its foundation, list of managers and officers from the beginning, facts and events in its history with appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    The extension at the rear of the center building and connected with it by a corridor twenty-eight feet long and corresponding in height and width with the two principal stories of the main building is twenty-five by forty feet, and two stories high above the basement. The first story was used as an exercising hall and the second as a lecture room. V The ceilings of these rooms were fourteen feet nine inches and fourteen feet, respectively. Each room was lighted by eight large windows and was well heated and ventilated. The corridor was lighted by a large triple window on each of its sides, reaching the height of both stories. The walls of this exten- sion were of brick, rough cast outside. The altera- tions made in the original construction consisted in part of a new French roof, furnishing in the center eight bedrooms for the accommodation of employees, and in the rest of the building two dining rooms and apartments for twelve additional patients on each side of the house. In the first and second stories of the wings four new dining rooms were provided. For each of these, two patients' rooms next the center building were appropriated and the partition removed. The front wall next to the corridor was left intact, but the outer wall of the building was set back a few feet, making a room eighteen by twenty feet. These rooms were furnished with sinks, hot and cold water, china closets, and dumb-waiters leading to the basement. Under the dining room on one side was the housekeeper's room adjoining the storeroom and on the other the scullery, adjoin- ing the kitchen in the basement. In an octangular