CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12] — Page 39

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Total Sectional area of extracting flues 216 sq. in : not including chimney.

The

present wall plaster of these wards will

Portland. be hacked off and substituted by

Cement to be oil painted four coats light

French

grey.

The present hardwood floors will be scraped, oiled and beeswaxed and a

skirting to project 3 inches added to prevent the contact of beds with walls. In wards

A and 13 which are without fire places the present stoves will be replaced by large pypo- pneumatie stoves arranged for down east fluces. All doors and windows will have hinged transome lights opening inwards and extending to within eighteen inches of the ceiling. In addition to stoves and fire

places, ventilation will be furnished by inlet and outlet flues. The former will be eut out

of the present solid walls and have 12+ 9′′ exterior

openings in the verandahs with sliding gratings eighteen inches above

level and end in upeast

verandah

floor

louvred valve openings eight feet above the

level of the ward floors. The outlets will open immediately below the ward ceilings on the level of the cornice and will consist of galvanized iron tubing ear

carried walls to the roof and ending Looking to the requirements of the climate it is

up

the side-

in a pine

intended that the sectional area.

outlets should be

square inch to ward space.

as

of inlets

cap.

one

nearly as possible thirty cubic feet of

every thirty

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