Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War 1900-1915 Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... Lavatories and toilet rooms are provided at each end of the main corridor on both floors for the general use of the occupants of the building. Toilet rooms for the engine room force, native employees, both male and female, are situated on the first floor of the power house. A special toilet for women is provided in the second floor of the power house. Power house.--A power house containing the engine and boiler equipment, refrigerating apparatus, pump, etc., as well as the serum institute, will be constructed immediately at the rear of the main building with a second story corridor connecting the two. The power house is approximately 50 by 100 feet, two stories in height, excepting the engine, boiler, and coal room, which are one story. The arched colonnade around the power house will be continued in the form of covered passageways to the subsidiary buildings. It is purposed to lay out the grounds surrounding the whole series of buildings with ample driveways, the space between which will be turfed and set out with nipa and bungo palms and other tropical trees, diversified by cretonsand other hardy ornamental shruls. Laboratory arrangement.--Provision is made tor the accommodation of the various laboratory departments as follows: Ground floor.--The left corridor wing at the front of the building includes the physical laboratories, embracing three intercommunicating rooms of dimensions 25 feet 9 inches by 24 feet 4 inches, 20 feet 3 inches by 21 feet 2 inches, and 20 feet 3 inches by 7 feet 8 inches, respectively, the two larger being for laboratory purposes and the smaller a photometric room. Adjoining are three rooms, also intercommunicating, each having access to main corridor, and dimensions of 20 feet 3 inches by 23 feet 8 inches, 20 feet 3 inches by 1...