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for the use

of the establishment. It.

" contains seventy six thousand gallons

and is 100 feet above the level of the Hospital ground floor.

Laundry. On the second.

plateau looking on the Surgeon's

yard are the Laundry Buildings comprising a Teake's Patent Drying closet somewhat working at

smaller than the one now

Victoria. Gaol, a fumigating

Jas

room with

som

stove, a foul linen room and a Wash-house to be fitted with coppers and a patent washing machine and rinser with strainer attached, washing tubs and small ironing stove and tak

dresser for ironing. ellortuary

On the third plateau

abutting against the Laundry Buildings will

be a Mortuary with lavatory and ie...... chamber. The mortuary which will also be used for post-mortem dissections is amply lighted and is intended to be a room 23 feet by

feet by 13 feet

and 15 feet

high with four eighteen inch cylindrical

iron ventilators

along the ridge of the

roof. The cylinders to be fitted with spiral trays in one piece for charcoal, and to be readily ascessible from the roof for the shipping and unshipping of trays and renewal of charcoal. "Four 6"x 12" inlet flues will be plased at the floor level with inside openings also arranged for charcoal trays. The floor will be paved and the entire walls lined with 9 inch