Asylum Buildings at Wernersville.
The accompanying illustration presents a bird’s-eye view of the buildings now being erected by the State of Pennsylvania, at Wernersville, near Reading, for the care of the Chronic Insane. The buildings now under contract and in process of construction are seven in all.—that slightly to the front, in the centre, which is the “Administration Building,” and the four "Ward Buildings,” slightly back of and on either side of the Administration building. These seven buildings will form in themselves a complete institution for 600 patients.
The administration building contains the offices, sleeping and living apartments of the superintendent and his assistants. The wards, which each contain four large dormitories, each accommodating about fifty patients, will be occupied only at night.
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