Scripto | Revision Difference | Transcription
Investigation of the Committee of the Legislature of 1881 Concerning the Management of the Maine Insane Hospital Part 2
14-354688-F017-I001-P1060.pdf
| Revision as of Sep 1, 2022, 5:20:00 PM created by HeatherMoran |
Revision as of Sep 1, 2022, 5:20:11 PM protected by HeatherMoran |
|---|
Revision as of Sep 1, 2022, 5:20:11 PM
1060.
accordingly. This furnished a greater degree of heat than was experienced there before, and as I have reason to believe, there has since that time been a record kept, which is taken, I think, through the whole building as often as once in three hours by the watch people. The temperature is taken in the halls but not in the rooms in any case I know of. The thermometers are are hung in the halls so that they may know some thing about the temperature, and by hanging them at a given spot they can judge what it would be at another spot.
By Dr. Butler:
Q. Is there any method of getting at the heat [?] of those lodge rooms? A. Yes, you may carry in a thermometer and wait until it settles, and that has often been done. I have been in with different boards of trustees and I think members of the visiting committee do make examinations on that score, going with them for the purpose of holding the [?] or something of that kind; some times