Third annual report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Northampton : October, 1858.

  • State Lunatic Hospital (Northampton, Mass.)
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Third annual report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Northampton : October, 1858. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the food is transported from the kitchen to the dumbwaiters supplying the nineteen dining-rooms. The plan comprises a centre building four stories high, which, with its extension in the rear, is one hundred and ninety feet deep, and a range of wings on each side, three stories high, giving a front line of five hundred and twelve feet. The stories are all twelve feet high. From its point of junction with the wings, the centre projects thirty-four feet. Here it has a width of sixty feet, is four stories high, and is surmounted by a cupola which rises to a height of one hundred feet above the ground. From this elevation is obtained a panoramic view of great beauty and extent. A portico, with a flight of steps on each side, adorns and protects the entrance. The entrance hall is twelve feet wide and thirty-six feet long, and terminates in a spacious rotunda, forty-nine by fifty-seven feet eight inches. Both these halls have a handsome mosaic floor of black walnut and maple. Upon the rear wall of the rotunda rise on each side spacious stairways leading to the stories above, the whole being abundantly lighted by large windows in each story. On each side of the entrance hall are two rooms eighteen by twenty-one feet, those on the right being occupied as the gen¬ eral business office and the physician’s room, those on the left as reception rooms. The three stories above contain rooms for the Superintendent and his family and other officers. That part of the centre building in the rear of the rotunda, one hundred and four feet in length, consists of a basement and three stories above. The basement contains a central passage¬ way from the outside to the cellar, having on one side the bakery and store-rooms, and on the other the kitchen and store¬ rooms connected with it. The kitchen is twenty-four by forty-seven feet. It has a brick floor laid in cement, is well lighted, and conveniently arranged for the purpose for which it is intended. It contains a u Cliil- son’s cooking range ” of large size, and seven copper boilers for cooking by steam. The story above the basement contains a dining-room and sitting-room, the ironing and drying rooms, and two store rooms.