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regular in shape - and be provided with iron bars or other sufficient protections.

If many additional patients are to be received it will be impossible to accommodate them in the ward unless repaired.

Such are the repairs, and additions, which, in my judgement, are necessary - Portion of those recommended may be more or less extensions in accordance with the probability of the longer or shorter period that the ward will be occupied for present purposes. - The ward is generally out of repair, and uprising repairs.  If there are any special portions of the ward that I have not, a ove, suggested repairs for - it is because I do not at the moment remember any portion yet which I have not called attention to.

When put in repair it will be too eroded for the good of the inmates.  All but the few in district cells, are in two sub wards - for males and females.  The gathering of such inmates in a single room is offensive to delicacy, and in every way objectionable, but cannot well be situated in the present ward without imposing ventilation.  With such numbers it is obvious that it is impossible, where having in view of special conditions of numbers of those patients, to keep the ward in the neat and presentable condition which