Excerpt from Report, of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insne: For the Year 1860 Extensive as this work has been, no one who Witnesses the change that has been effected, can hesitate to acknowledge that it is worth much more than it has cost, and that while the general air and appearance of the hospital have been greatly improved, its arrangements for management and classification have been rendered very superior to what they ever were before. The extent of these repairs and improvements may be inferred from the statement that the heating apparatus has been thoroughly overhauled, all the water fixtures, bath-rooms, and water-closets put in complete order, Often by an entire renewal of the fixtures, one new bath room and six new water-closets have been introduced, new arrangements have been made for heating water for more than one-half of the building, a new scullery has been provided in the basement, improved steam-tables have been placed in the dining-rooms, and there has been a thorough repair of all wood work, the renewal or re fitting of wash-boards nearly everywhere, new finish around all the ward doors in the main building, much new flooring in certain wards, various changes in the windows, and cutting away of interior walls to intro duce light and air, painting of all the wood work inside and outside, and of much of the interior walls of the entire building, much new plastering has been done in several of the wards, and a general rebuilding of many of the fences surrounding the patients' yards. A new yard has also been made, in connection with the north 4th ward, and a new road from the gate of entrance to the centre building, while the entire dome, and one section of the roof of the south Wing, from Which alone the ori ginal Zinc had not previously been removed, have been covered with tin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.