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arrangement of corridor, sleeping-rooms, day-rooms, and dining-room; with two stair-ways, clothes-room, lavatory, bath-room, water-closet, soiled clothes-shaft, drying-shaft and dust-flue to each. The corridors in the first, second, and third wings are respectively one hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and sixty, and seventy feet long; and in the third stories of the first and second transverse wings, one hundred and nineteen, and thirty-four feet long. They are uniformly twelve feet wide, and, in common with all other rooms, sixteen feet in hight upon the first and third floors, and fifteen upon the second. The dimensions of the single sleeping-rooms are eight and ten by eleven feet, with an average cubic capacity of fourteen hundred feet. The associate dormitories are fourteen by twenty-one feet, and the parlors, or recreation-rooms, eighteen by twenty. Lateral recesses, extending into the projecting towers in front, form additional day-rooms in the first and second wings, on either side. The dining-rooms are sufficiently capacious to accommodate the number for which they are intended, and are supplied with detached sinks, cupboards, and dumb waiters. The closets, bath-rooms, lavatories, and clothes-rooms open upon an adjacent, and not upon the main hall, giving a very desirable privacy. The bath and closet fixtures are of approved construction, and, to prevent all possible danger from leakage, the service-pipes are conveyed in a separate pipe-shaft—an arrangement which also facilitates and cheapens any repairs that may become necessary. Drying-shafts, having lattice-work floors, and communicating directly with the ventilating cupolas, furnish a ready means of drying mops, wet cloths, damp brooms, &c., and thus materially assist in promoting the cleanliness and healthfulness of the corridors. Το prevent exposure, the bath-rooms and lavatories have communicating doors, in order that the latter may serve, on "bathing-days," as dressing-rooms to the former.

REFERENCES TO THE PLATE.-A, public parlor ; B, Superintendent's office; C, Matron's room; D, business of fice; EE, reception rooms; F, officers' dining room; G, apothecary shop; H, ante-room, communicating by a private stiarway, with the Superintendent's apartments above; I, and II, store-rooms; K, associated dormitories; L, attendants' rooms; M, day and recitation-rooms; N, patients sitting-rooms; O, dining-rooms; U, Chapel, having beneath it the kitchen, bakery and store-rooms; 1, boiler-room; 2, engine and fire-rooms; 3, laundry; 4, drying-room; 5, ironing-room; 6, workshop; 7, covered corridors.

NOTE.

The preceding "References to the Plate," contemplate the insertion of a ground plan of the Asylum, not in hand at the time this form goes.to press, but promised by the Officers of the Asylum on a separate sheet, in season to be bound up with this volume, and facing this page.

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MICHIGAN

ASYLUM FOR THE

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INFIRMARIES.—In a detached building, in the rear of the first transverse wings, but connected with the wards by means of a covered corridor, an infirmary is provided for each sex. Fitted up with every convenience, they provide a very desirable place for the treatment of acute cases, of those who are seriously ill, or of any requiring special care and frequent medical attention. They can be reached at all hours of the night without disturbing any other portion of the house; they provide the means of isolation in case of the occurrence of any infectious or contagious diseases in the institution, and give to the friends of dying patients an opportunity of administering to them in their last moments.

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WINDOWS. The windows are fitted throughout with a cast-iron sash, the upper half of which alone is glazed. Posterior to the lower half, and immediately against it, is a wooden sash of corresponding size and shape, moving free, and suspended by a cord and weight; the former being attached to the bottom of the sash, and passing over a pulley near its top, is always entirely concealed. The panes of glass are six by nine inches in size. The windows, . where deemed desirable, are protected by a shutter of framed wicker-work, sliding into the wall, and retained there, as also in its position, by one and the same lock.

FLOORING.-The floors in all uncarpeted rooms are formed of one and one-half inch oak plank, grooved and tongued, and none of them being more than three and one-half inches in width. The sleepers and the iron girders supporting the arches rest upon an offset in the wall, which, when finished, also forms the cornice in the room below.

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PROVISION AGAINST FIRE.-The horrible sacrifice of human life on the occasion of the burning of an institution for the insane in one of the Eastern States, and the peculiar liability of these buildings to take fire, as shown by the frequent occurrence of such accidents, determined the Board of Trustees, although it would somewhat increase

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