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1st Floor:
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* Lobby
* Solarium &
patient rooms
* Offices
* Medical labs
* X-ray & dark room
* One nurse's station
* Salon / Barber
Shop
* Dentist
* North wing contained access to the beginning of what is now known as the body chute.
* Library
* Breaker & transformer rooms
* Cold rooms for meat & other food storage
* Old electric / stone / water potato pealer is still present on this floor. (It's not a meat grinder as
many believe it to be.)
* Small morgue
* Maintenance offices
-Maintenance fact... the main maintenance office has a light indication system that would let workers
know if a cooler or transformer went out and needed repair.
2nd Floor:
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* North wing contained the kitchen. The kitchen
had the capacity and equipment to easily take care of 500 people, with a ventilation system that could completely change
the air tempature every 3 minutes.
* North wing also contained the Bakery & the dining rooms. The main dining room
had the capacity to seat 328 employees and/or patients at one sitting. The room could be expanded to seat 448 people.
(An average of 2,100 meals served daily.)
* One minor surgery / Treatment Room
* Solarium & patient rooms
* One kitchenette
* One dinette
* Chapel
* Two nurses stations
3rd Floor:
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* One minor surgery / Treatment
Room
* Solarium & patient rooms
* One kitchenette
* One dinette
* Two nurses stations
* Occupational
therapy (Shown on a video made about TB)
4th Floor:
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* Major surgery
* Recovery rooms
*
Waiting room
* One minor surgery / Treatment Room
* Solarium & patient rooms
* One kitchenette
* One dinette
* Two nurses stations
5th Floor:
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* The 5th floor was reserved for the heliotherapy
department, where those suffering from TB of the bone were treated with sunlight. (1926)
* Access to elevator maintenance
was in what is now known as the "Belltower".
* Children had a roof top swing set.
* One nurses station
* One kitchenette
Basement:
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* Crawl spaces for pipe maintenance
* Elevator
maintenance
* Access for laundry building
* Unidentified room contains a fire door with fans in the windows to circulate
the air. Also in this room are low lying tables that line each wall.
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