Excerpt from California Public Health Report, 1894Drs. W. G. Cochran and J. R. Laine proceeded to Agnews to make a sanitary inspection Of the Agnews Insane Asylum.Dr. C. A. Ruggles resumed his station in the northern part of the State as Inspector for the Board.The Agnews Asylum is situated on a level stretch of fertile land but little above tide water. The water supply is obtained from an artesian well in the rear Of the buildings. The water rises into a covered reser voir, and is pumped directly into the mains. The quality is excellent and the quantity ample and apparently inexhaustible. The closets and lavatories were in a very creditable condition.The drainage is conveyed from the different parts Of the buildings to an eight-inch vitrified stone sewer, through which it flows in a north easterly direction feet, and empties into a creek. This is repre sented to be a temporary sewer. The sewer is ventilated near the rear Of the buildings by a pipe which taps the sewer at its junction with the waste pipes of the premises, and is introduced into a tall smokestack which carries the smoke of the furnaces. The furnace is detached and unconnected from the buildings, and the great draught of the smoke stack carried the gases above all possibility of polluting the atmosphere respired by the inhabitants. The asylum is newly built and is modern in construction, and has been maintained in such a manner as not to be deserving of adverse criticism.The kitchen and dining-hall were scrupulously clean. The kitchen was free from ¿ies, the meats were fresh and the food supplies in the store-room were of good quality. The food prepared for the table at noon was well cooked and to all appearance unobjectionable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.