The Hygienic Laboratory

The plans próvida for the erection of a building whose greatest dimensions are 70x115 feet, with basement, first and second stories ; the second story being devoted exclusively to hyginic work. The following rooms are provided : The eeneral hygienio laboratory, 3Gx38 feet, for the use of student, in classes or sections, pursuing, as far may be, original investigations on Unes marked out by tbe professor in charge ; the mioroscopical room, 19x21 feet, located with special reference to steadinessof light; the professor's private laboratory, 21 feet by 22 feet 6 inches, with adjoining study 10x14 feet; the assiatant's piivate labaratory, 16x21 feet ; a special room, 16x26 feet, rooms devoted to wa'er and gas analysis, 20 feet 3 inches by 20 feet 6 inches. and 20 feet 3 inches by 16 feet, respectively ; the bacteriological room, 21x24 feet, with the adjoining disinfecting and cold rooms, each 10x10 feet, for the examination of bacteria and the investigation of germinal and contagious diseases. The lecture room is on the firat floor. In the attic is an animal room, where will be kept animáis made use of in investigations. The various tables where poisonous gases are used or generated are provided with ventilating hoods to carry the gases to the attic, where they are disposed of through heated flae stack9. The plumbing and other interior work is designed with reference to the special uses, the action of acid wastes, etc. The inner face of exterior walls and nearly all the interior walls will be finished in brick ; and the general appearance of the interior will be simple, solid and unpretentious, suited to the uses of the building and suggestive, perhaps, of it8 ultímate purpose to build up a sanum corpus. The character of the investigations will be varied, including the study of properties of Eooda, of disease, germs, of preventivo medicine and methods, and, in general, of anything that makeg for health and against disease. Of the immediately practical bearings of the work there can be no question, and so long as the state is conceded the right to offer facihties in any form of higher, or special, education, such hygienic education and nvestigation8 shouíd be given a conspicuous plsce in state institutions.