Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-10-18 | Page 6 | Reservoir at the Mental Hospital

RESERVOIR ES ER 0 IR AT THE MENTAL AL ALWater Water for All Purposes Being Carried to Provo Institution Repairs Made Inside Special to The Herald Rep Herald lIcan I Provo 0 Oct 17 A li-A A reservoir Is be beIn beIng being be- be In ing built at the Slate State Mental hospital hospi hospi- tal tab for th tho purpose of storing gallons of water per day da to be bo used usell at the Institution Tho The hospital already has succeeded succeed ell In developing the tho Oak Oal spring until a portion of tho the water used Usell at the hospital is obtained from froth that source Now n a tunnel is being belm driven en Into tho hill lull above tho the to to tap a A. series of springs which run across the tho hillside e as it is be believed be- be lIe ed b by the tho engineers In charge that there Is water ater enough h to furnish the hospital with plenty plent for tor all uses In the main buildings s. s The Tho ne now new reservoir will be lined with steel and cement concrete while a concrete house wIllbe will willbe willbe be built over O tho the source Besides the work of ot dl digging gln for or wa wa- toy tot Superintendent D. D H. H Calder has had every ward every vard from the basement to the top painted and renovated through through- out ll Ho Is al also o preparing to have hn mapie maple ma ma- pIe floors put in the wards This work as well veil as the outside work Is being done lone h by convalescent patients who would rather bo be I kept ept busy than spend their time In Idleness It also saves the state a l great deal of or money mono as It would require the entire appropriation atlon to put in a part pant of ot the floors b by contract A knitting machine has bias been Installed In- In stalled Mailed recently an and now tho tile patients are arc making hO hosiery ler for the entire number number num num- ber bar of persons at the hospital The They are arc also equipped for or making practically call cally all of ot the cloth clothing In that I Is worn and Instead of ot buln buying overalls and shirts which were formerly made at atthe atthe atthe the state penitentiary these clothes are arc being manufactured at tho the Provo institution