worth while building
asylum at all;
moreover the vacant chambers a
always be utilized fu linen and bedding.
the starage of
Site. The site chosen is a plot of vacant Crown above the western European suburb of Victoria, and removed from the immediate neighborhood of houses, the rearest building being a stable which in 350 feet-distant from the bollow of the
proposed asylum-garden.
of the site was
Referred
The selections
to a Board composed
the Principal Medical Officers Navel
And Military.
> and the spot sow intreated
was recommended by theme on account of its privacy and healthy situation. The durrounding ground is at present devoid of picturesque vegetation, but it is intended to
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plant the whole of the reyhbouring hit.. slope with fir trees and saplings taken
from the Fovernment nurseries, and to lay out a flower garden 75 feet by 120 feet in front of the proposed building, which will face the North and Command
beautiful view of the harbour and the moun
the mainland opposite. Buildings. The proposed Establishment scale owing to
tains
?
is designed on so small a
the very
it
limited rumber of patients, that
appearance will be simply that of a
brick
small private house. It will be and have two stories, and will be provided
with outbuildings at the back, booking out
on a small yard the
be asphalted. The
5 Aurface of which will
upper and lower
in flovs with be similar in all respects and consist