Thirteenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica : transmitted to the Legislature February 9, 1856 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Thirteenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica : transmitted to the Legislature February 9, 1856 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The part of the house appropriated to the male patients is yet insufficiently warmed and ventilated. After the hot air furna¬ ces were removed, we were compelled, as a matter of necessity, in order to pass the winter of 1854-5, to place steam pipes in the halls occupied by the male patients, so as to warm those halls by direct radiation. This temporary plan of warming was found to be insufficient to the wants or comfort of this side of the house, and during the last summer we have constructed a pipe-chamber in the front north wing, occupied by male patients, and also the flues required in the partition walls of that wing, for the admission of warm and the escape of foul air. Weffiad on hand nearly suf¬ ficient pipe for this chamber. In connection with this work, we found it necessary to relay the floors in the halls and sitting rooms of the second and third stories, which had become so much worn, that they were no longer fit for use; to re-plaster all the halls and day rooms throughout the north wing, and also to make many other extensive repairs, which in thirteen years occupation of the building had become indispensably necessary. We have expended up to the 1st of December, for warming and ventilating the building, and repairs connected therewith, $6,611.56, beyond the amount appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose, as will be seen by the treasurer’s report, here¬ with submitted. This expenditure was necessary to enable us to complete the work in the south wing, in order to obtain the full benefit of what had already been done, and to construct the-pipe chamber in the basement of the north front wing, so as sufficiently to warm for the present winter, the rooms and apart¬ ments in that wing, appropriated to the male patients. No part of the work required for warming and ventilating the north rear wing, 225 feet in length and three stories in height, and the rear cross wing, 350 feet in length, and two stories in height, has yet been done. We have caused careful estimates to be made of the cost of completing the work for warming and ventilating the north front, and rear wings, and the rear cross wing, on the plan adopted, and estimate the entire cost, inclu-