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Investigation of the Committee of the Legislature of 1881 Concerning the Management of the Maine Insane Hospital Part 2
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These lodge rooms occupy a space about as big as this room [Senate Chamber] and considerably higher. This corridor runs through the centre of the lodge, pretty nearly east and west. Doors along each side of this corridor lead into the lodge rooms. There are passages also, one leading from the bath-room in the second wing and another leading from what is called the veranda at the junction of the second and third wings. What is true of one is also practically of the other. The coil is directly underneath this lodge of the second and third wings in either case. The coil is for the conveyance of the heated steam to the air. The heated air is caused by the contact of the heated pipe with it. This steam in each case passes through a coil amounting to a little less that half a mile in length (inserted "under each of the lodges") of one inch pipe. When I went there in 1874 the condition of these coils was practically the same as now with one exception which I will describe shortly. These coils