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Changes and improvements were made during the year as follows:

1. Administration Building: This building was formerly used for living quarters for the medical staff and some of the employees. It was found that considerable expense could be saved by transferring the medical staff and employees to the building known as the employees' building, and by using one kitchen instead of two for the general cooking for hospital patients and employees. This change was effected early last summer, and the building known as the administration building was completely renovated and fitted up for the care of first class passengers and it is known as the cabin building. A new entrance to this building has been provided, the old one having been in a dilapidated condition, also a new stock of blankets, linen, mattresses, etc., were purchased for the use of first class passengers.

This change has effected an economy in coal, light and labor. The building is not heated except when used for the special purposes for which it has been prepared.

2. Hospital Building: This building has undergone changes which have increased the hospital capacity by 50 per cent.

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rearrangement of the heating scheme in this building has resulted in a saving of fuel. All unnecessary space formerly used for offices, corridors and storerooms has been converted into hospital ward space and a passage-way opened which connects the new ward space with baths and toilets in the rear of the building.

A dispensary has also been fitted up in the hospital building where persons in detention suffering from ailments not serious enough to be admitted as regular hospital patients may receive treatment. This room is also used for recording hospital and detention patients.

A sterilizer for the sterilization of hospital dressings has been installed so that all such dressings can now be prepared on Hoffman Island instead of at Rosebank as heretofore.

The upper part of the hospital building has been thoroughly repaired and overhauled. All beds were painted and new mattresses provided. Two special steam chambers have been installed, one for the sterilization of dishes and the other for the care of bed pans and urinals, so that all possible infection from such sources will be obviated.

A storeroom for linen and other hospital supplies has been placed in a convenient part of the hospital building.

3. Detention Dormitory: (South end of Hospital Building). This wing has been repaired and a storeroom provided for the care of all articles used in connection with the treatment of persons in detention. New mattresses numbering 1,000 have been manufactured by the station force for the sleeping bunks in this building, and a "gasoline-soap" spray installed for the anti-parasitic treatment of persons in detention.

4. Detention Dormitory (South): In the north end of this building shower baths, toilets, a gas water heater, and steam facilities have been placed for the care and treatment of persons infected with pediculosis. A new concrete floor has been put in and partitions erected to complete this building for the efficient accommodation of a large number of persons awaiting treatment for the above mentioned conditions. The central portion of this building has been repaired throughout. From the south end of this building, the carpenter and machine shops were transferred and the space so released was provided with new floors, painted and repaired and bunks erected for the accommodation of forty-eight people.

5. Employees' Building: This building now serves as living quarters for the staff and all employees, and its kitchen is used for the cooking of food for employees, hospital patients and persons in detention. The entire basement of this building, which consists of the employees' dining room, kitchen and storerooms has been repaired and painted.

In the north portion of the employees' building a dining room for medical officers has been fitted out; a room formerly used as an ironing room having been taken for the purpose.

6. Isolation Buildings: These buildings have had minor repairs made, the beds painted and new mattresses provided. The grounds immediately surrounding those buildings have been graded and stone walks placed at the entrance of each building.

7. The unused building known as the dock building has been moved in close proximity to the engine room and boiler house for the purpose of housing the laundry and fumigating machinery. This has effected a marked saving of fuel and labor and has released the former laundry room for much needed space for serving food to immigrants in detention.

8. The Artesian Well: The pump has been completely overhauled and is for the period covered by this report in good working order.

9. The Grounds: These have been graded and policed and improvements and repairs made but there is still much to be done in this line.

10. Fumigating Plant: Two of the steam chambers which were unserviceable for steam sterilization were found to be efficient for the cyanide method of fumigation and have given good results in destroying parasites in clothing and baggage.

11. Laundry Building and Detention Dormitory: This building has been completely overhauled and remodeled. Bunks for the accommodation of four hundred people have been erected and mattresses provided. The toilet facilities in this building were entirely inadequate for so large a number of people, therefore a room formerly used as a storeroom was fitted up with the baths and toilets necessary for the number of people above mentioned.

12. Carpenter and Machine Shop: The two small buildings which formerly contained incinerators which were worn out and

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