NATIONAL QUARANTINE STATION, DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Barracks, Bath House, Lavatories and smaller Hospital.

The hospitals, two in number and some 600 feet apart, are both situated on the sea front, and the larger one, 60x30 feet, two stories in height, includes an addition just completed, increasing the quarters for the hospital steward on duty at the quarantine station. This hospital has a capacity of about twenty beds, while the smaller one, 50x30 feet, can afford accommodation for about twelve patients.

The immigrant bath house is 86x16 feet, with an addition 24x16 feet on each end. The bath house contains twenty shower baths and one bath tub, with hot and cold water connections to each bath. The additions contain disrobing and dressing rooms. The boiler house and laundry, twenty feet distant from the bath house, is 61 feet 6 inches in length by 21 feet in breadth, and is divided into two rooms. The one next the bath house contains the steam disinfecting chamber, constructed by the Kensington Engine Works after designs furnished by Past Assistant Surgeon J. J. Kinyoun, M. H. S. The steam chamber is intended only for the disinfection of wearing apparel of immigrants detained for observation and sickness. It is 4 feet 4 inches by 5 feet 4 inches by 9 feet 6 inches in dimensions, and has two cars which support wire screens upon which the articles to be disinfected are spread before being run into the chamber. The cars run on an iron track, a section of which, sufficient in length to support the car, is itself movable, and can be brought either to join the track entering the chamber, or to the one running alongside. The boiler house also contains the boiler for generating steam to be used for disinfecting and for running a small engine and pump. The other half of the building, the laundry, contains twenty-four stationary wash tubs and drying apparatus for the use of the detained immigrants. These two buildings were erected in 1893.

The barracks, which are the next buildings to those just described, consist of two structures, each 300x24 feet, and of a clear height of 12 feet. One runs nearly north and south, and the other nearly east and west. They are each divided by five partitions into compartments of equal size, and contain accommodations for from 800 to 1,000 immigrants. The bunks are arranged in tiers, three in number, and are similar in arrangement to those in the steerage of a vessel carrying immigrants. Each barrack has an addition, 15x44 feet in dimersions, containing rooms for nurses and storerooms for sheets, pillows, etc. The barracks are not connected, but in the interval betwee them is the building containing the dining room for immigrants, kitchen and storerooms. This building is 48 feet square, with an addition 18x45 feet. The kitchen contains apparatus for cooking by steam, and all the most modern appliances for the speedy preparation of food for large numbers of people.

In the rear of the barracks are found the latrines, 30x10 feet, with a height of 9 feet. Water is supplied to all these buildings by an

artesian well situated within the enclosure, and driven to a depth of 394 feet. With the use of a pump the daily output of this well-per day of twenty-four hours-is from 18,000 to 21,000 gallons, a quantity sufficient for all purposes required. The water is carried by overhead piping to the buildings, and to two large tanks situated near the bath house, and which can be seen in the photograph of

same.

All the buildings within the enclosure are constructed of wood, and are connected with one another and with the surgeon's quarters by boardwalks.

Reedy Island Station.

Reedy Island lies a little below the junction of the river with the bay, and about midway between Philadelphia and Cape Henlopen. It is separated from the Delaware shore by an interval of about three-fourths of a mile. The main structure is the pier head, on which the disinfecting plant is erected. This is not on the island itself, but stands out several hundred feet in the bay, being in fact directly on the channel.

It is 200 feet long by 40 feet broad, and has a depth of water off its eastern or channel side of 30 feet at low tide. It is built of heavy piling driven down to hard bottom and firmly bolted together, and having at each end a double row of piling 50 feet long, and a triangular ice break constructed of heavy piling and timbers extending out from this double row of piling 50 feet. The depth of water off the pier allows of the mooring of a vessel directly to the pier during the process of disinfection. On this pier is the shed for the disinfecing machinery, warehouse and observatory tower, as well as quarters for attendants. The total length of the building is 196 feet; the 90 feet at the southern end being 36 feet broad, and the northern 106 feet, being 23 feet broad. This latter portion is divided into warehouses and contains one large wooden tank of a capacity of 15,000 gallons. The southern portion, 90x36 feet, is divided into two parts, one 16x36 feet, and one 74x36 feet, which contains the following disinfecting machinery: Two steam chambers of the same make and pattern as the one at the Delaware Breakwater quarantine station already described, but larger, viz: Each 15 feet long, 5 feet 4 inches high, 4 feet 4 inches in width, placed side by side, with trucks and railway. This machinery, like that at the Breakwater quarantine station, was designed and built by the Kensington Engine Works, Limited, of Philadelphia. The shed also contains a sulphur furnace of the Valk & Murdoch, Charleston, type, catch cylinder, exhaust fan and engine (three horse-power), to run the same, and rubber piping to conduct the fumes of SO'2 from the furnace to the vessel. A fifty horse-power boiler supplies steam for the disinfecting