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Investigation of the Committee of the Legislature of 1881 Concerning the Management of the Maine Insane Hospital Part 2 (14-354688-F017-I001-P1081.pdf)

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1081 A (cont.) people besides the insane patients there confined in the hospital. The first duty of that team is to attend to the wants of the patients whenever the superintendent chooses to use it for that purpose. I want to say further that he ordered a team that I didn't furnish when it was possible to furnish it. I never was obliged to say to him that the team could not go except once, and then the carriage was broken. By Mr. Baker Q. As to the heating of the lodges the long and short of it, all is if there has been any deficiency of heat at all this whole difficulty has been remedied? A. Yes sir, if there has ever been any difficulty it was a rule excessively hot. By Mr. Marble Q. Did I understand you that you put in piping from the steam boilers to the lodge rooms directly, this last fall? A. We put in pipes which replaced certain pipes already existing, as certain pipes did exist, and they made a continuous line from the boilers to the coils under the lodge rooms, so that steam now passes from the boilers

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Language: English

Date: 1881

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