Regular Hospital Annual Cleaning

  New boiler house approaching completion

  Adds much room and safely to nurses home -- New cement conduct is an innovation

  The usual summer's house cleaning and renovating of the regular hospital is progressing finely, and Superintendent Gilmore will soon see the work where he can feel satisfied to bid new patients welcome. The new boiler house which is one of the greatest improvements of the year, will soon be ready for use. A feeling of relief is experienced by every one that the high pressure boilers have been removed from beneath the nurses home. Much room will be added by this change.

  Patients are being barred out for a short time, while the surgical ward is undergoing two weeks of painting. All the patients have moved out. Those who could be sent home were sent, and those who were unable to be sent, have been moved to the medical and Palmer wards. About the first of next week they will be gathered together again within newly painted halls.

  The new Psychopathic ward which is in a slow process of completion, will be one of the best equipped and most up-to-date buildings of its kind. All Improvements that are modern and pertinent to skillful and scientific treatment of insane and nervous diseases have entered into the plans of this new ward. The whole building bears the stamp of progress and science. The long upper halls are made into wards and offices, with a "sun room" at each end. There are also two of these rooms on the lower floor inclosed with glass, where one may take a sunbath which is almost equal to the open air. These sun rooms on the north are unusually pleasant because of the beautiful outlook over the rolling, uneven bluffs, green in summer and white in winter, which is one of Ann Arbor's beauty spots. In the basement is a complete system, as far as modern improvement can go, of hydrothermal apparatus. Here it is fitted out with shower baths, a massage table, and an apparatus table by which hot and cold water can be adjusted to a fine point. A large space is devoted to laboratories.

  In connection with this building is a tunnel of cement construction, extending from the boiler house to the Psychopathic ward. This is of special interest as it is being constructed on the modern method of using cement and sand instead of masonry, being much less expensive than the former style. The men are just beginning to work upon this. It acts as a passageway for carrying all the hot water and also for the electric wires from the dynamo, for lighting purposes, and serves the purpose of almost every tunnel, to economize in space.

  There is no contract in connection with this building which states definitely when it shall be finished, so no man knoweth the time of its completion.