The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder.

  • Turner, J. Edward, 1822-1889.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DESCRIPTION OF THE WOMAN’S NATIONAL HOSPITAL. LOCATED AT WILTON, CONN. The building’ will be 370 feet long and 70 feet wide; hav- ing a center pavilion, with tower and wings at each end, with a frontage of 90 feet. The principal entrance will be in the south wing, through a cai’riage porch and vestibule entering a spacious hall on the first floor, 10 feet wide, at either side of which are the reception rooms, physicians’ offices, &c. Through folding doors at the end of this hall commences the main corridor, 12 feet wide, extending the leng-th of the building, with a traverse corridor in the center ])avilion. At either side of the corridors are the patient’s rooms, in size about 10 x 20 feet, arranged en-snite and singly. In the north wing are the chapel, library and dining rooms; adjoining them, the con- servatoiy. The three u]iper floors are arranged in the same manner and are reached by easy and spacious .staircases and hydraulic elevators. The lower or basement story will contain the various offices, kitchens, store-rooms, heating and ventilating appa- ratus, rooms for special cases, and rooms specially arranged for Turkish baths. The exterior of the building will be natural rock-faced granite with dressed jambs to the openings, cut groins to the corners and cut string coni-ses. The columns of the porticos and loggias will be granite with carved capitals; the loggias will extend on three sides of the building and the columns and arches will snp])ort the walls of the Vmilding above. All interior walls and ])a,rtitions will be built with brick carried up to the roofs, which will be covered with .slate, and the cori’idors and halls will be arched with brick aud concre- ted so that in case office it can be confined to the a])artment in which it may occur, without any danger of s])reading through the entire building. The elevatoi-s will be enclosed in brick shafts with iron doors; the heating and ventilating