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The
North & South Branch buildings were built originally to
help alleviate the over crowding in
the Main Building and also to house
violent and noisy patients because
the hospital did not have proper
accommodations for these types of
patients. In 1885 $80,000 was
appropriated for constructing the
two branch buildings, one for men
and one for women. Construction was
finished in 1886. They each contain
accommodations for 152 patients, and
were connected to each other and the
Main Building by long corridors. On
the first floor of each are two
large day rooms and single and
double bed rooms; on the second are
two large dormitories
with a few smaller bed rooms.
One-half of the basement of each
building was setup as a dining room.
After the demolition of the
Main Building they
were re-named Male and Female 9 & 10
and were used for chronic patients.
In 1894 problems with the buildings
were reported by then
superintendent, Henry Orth. That
spring diarrhoeal and dysenteric
diseases became a problem at the
hospital. Orth attributed these
problems to "filth due to imperfect
ventilation." Steam coils in iron
chests were placed in the attics
with outlets on the roof. From the
chests, large ventilation pipes were
run into each bathroom. This created a
continuous downward ventilation
through the rooms. This solution
seemed to have cured the problem,
because after installation, not a
single case of dysenteric was
reported. The buildings were eventually demolished in
the later part of the twentieth century.
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