. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . m 20 to 60 beds, and not more than two stories high, with ample porcheson both floors, with day and night quarters entirely separated, withoutconnecting covered corridors, except in the hospital group, with a centralcongregate dining room each for men and women, one general kitchenand with central heating and lighting systems with necessary conduittunnels, will meet the highest requirements of such a hospital. Not often is the opportunity vouchsafed to one after long years ofexperience in the development of one institutio
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . m 20 to 60 beds, and not more than two stories high, with ample porcheson both floors, with day and night quarters entirely separated, withoutconnecting covered corridors, except in the hospital group, with a centralcongregate dining room each for men and women, one general kitchenand with central heating and lighting systems with necessary conduittunnels, will meet the highest requirements of such a hospital. Not often is the opportunity vouchsafed to one after long years ofexperience in the development of one institution to be permitted to planand supervise the construction of a new hospital along the lines of hisown ideals, but the writer has been so honored and privileged lately bythe confidence of his state and two of its chief executives, with the result,after three or four years of arduous labor, of a complete and fullyequipped modern hospital known as the Southeastern Hospital for theInsane located at Madison. This will be described elsewhere.—SamuelEdwin Smith, M. S., M. 26 EASTERN INDIANA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE 359 and one for women on the east. In the rear of the administrationbuilding was the service building containing officers and employeesquarters and dining rooms, general kitchen, bakery and cold store,and with an assembly hall on the second floor. In the rear weregrouped the power house with its appurtenances and the laundry. On the eastern side, located in a line and fronting the east, werefive detached cottages for women patients, each with its ownpeculiar arrangement, external and internal. On the western side was a line of detached cottages for menpatients, similar in most particulars to those constituting thedepartment for women. No covered corridors between the cottages were built. Shallowbrick tunnels radiated from the power house to the groups ofcottages, in which were carried the steam, water and electric water mains, however, were placed in trenches i
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