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the superintendent and the [?] still
continuted upon the lodges sometimes so that there
might be heat in the lodges longer than it was required elsewhere, because
the patients in those lodges were not so well
protected against cold. That was done
on a very cold night. In a
moderately cold night it might be run on
all round until 11 oclock, or [?] time to
shut down steam; then the fires are simply
banked or damped down by being covered with
coal ashes until morning.
Q. So the fires are not [?] at all
and the heat does not cease, but
steam is diminished between the
hours of 11 and 3.
A. Up to the first
of this winter when the engineer
left his boilers and ha his fires
banked up, he shut off all the steam
from any place. But now this
change I speak of comes in.
A pipe was run in such a manner
last fall to each of these coils that
it would carry steam from the
boilers to the lodges when the
engineer was away. There would be

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