Adjoining the centre edifice, on the west, is a long building, 34 feet deep, di vided into 42 cells, for lunatics, with a window in each. These cellsfront north and south, and are separated in the mid dle by a long lobby, about 12 feet wide, which is lighted from the cells, by the small windows over each door. The west wing, which intersects this long building at right angles, is in all respects subdi vided like the east. The structure up. stairs is the same as that of the first story, being divided into wards, and a double row of cells.
In the basement story, there is likewise a double row of cells, all round the wing and long building, the windows of which open into the area. All the cells are warmed by flues in their partition walls, communicating with the chimney, and opening into wall stoves, the doors o f which are in the lobbies—one stove warms two rooms. The whole extent of the buildings, from east to west, is 278 feet. In consequence of the length of the wings crossing the long wards, and rows of cells, the east and west fronts present a finished and agreeable appearance.
Detached from the main building, and at a convenient distance from it, near the east wall, is a two story building: divided into a kitchen, pantry, lodging-room for a nurse, and four small wards for venereal patients.
Near the west wall are two buildings, two stories high, the one containing wash. ing, ironing, and drying rooms; the other stables, &c.
The different apartments in this hospi tal are as follow: Centre building.
Kitchen, scullery, steward's dining room, maid's lodging-room, in the basement story. . . • . 4 A library-room, on the first floor, an apothecary's shop, ditto, manager's room, ditto, steward's room, ditto, 4 The contributors' room, in the se cond story, chambers for the resi dent physician, pupils, and stew ard, ditto 3 Operation-room, in the third story, museum, ditto, small apartments near the operation-room, for the patients operated on, ditto - 4 Baking-rooms and larders, in the cellar 3 Bathing-rooms in the basement story of the west wing - - 2 Room for deputy-steward and his wife, in ditto - - - 1 Cells for lunatics in the west wing 70 Ditto, in the east - - - 16 Wards for sick and wounded in the whole building - - - 23 In all, wards and rooms, 130 The square ground plot, on which the hospital stands, is 396 feet in width, and 468 feet in length, containing about four acres. It is enclosed by a brick wall,
with an iron palisade in its frunt. It is surrounded by fine rows of lofty sycamore trees, and the grounds are well laid out in a beautiful garden behind, and grass plots and hedges in front. There is a va cant square to the east, and half a square on the west, making together above six acres. These squares lay across eighth street on the east, and ninth-street on the west, parallel to the lines of the hospital enclosure. Besides these, there are three vacant squares on the south side of pine street, opposite the hospital, which be long to this institution ; so that every be nefit that arises from airiness of situation is insured to this hospital. The other half square, on the west, belongs to the Alms-House, and it is intended to be kept open; so that the Pennsylvania hospital may be said to stand in the middle of se veral great squares, which, without in cluding the open streets, contain more than thirteen acres.
This institution was founded by the contributors in the year 1752, for the re. lief of lunatics, and the dick poor of Penn sylvania. These contributors are such persons as have paid into the hospital fund the sum of 10 pounds, or upwards. " They have perpetual succession, with the pow er to elect twelve managers, a treasurer, and all other officers of the institution, and to make rules and regulations for the go vernment of the household. They may receive and take the lands, hereditaments, and tenements, not exceeding the yearly value of one thousand pounds, of the gift, alienation, bequest, or devise, of any per son or persons whomsoever, and of any goods and chattels whatsoever: Provid ed, that no general meeting of the contri butors. or persons acting under them, shall employ any money or other estate, expressly given to the capital stock of the hospital, in any other way than by ap plying its annual interest or rent toward the entertainment and care of the sick and distempered poor, that shall from time to time be brought and placed there in, for the cure of their diseases, from any. part of the state, without partiality or preference." The contributors have vested the ma nagers with the authority to esiablcsh,the mode of admitting and discharging pati ents, and the terms upon which they are to continue in the hospital; also to elect the medical and other officers of the in stitution.