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HYGIENE IN THE ARMY. 



A still finer example of a great military hos- 

 pital, the largest in the world, is the Mower 

 General Hospital, at Chestnut Hill, Philadel- 



phia. This vast establishment consists of 60 

 pavilions, each 175 feet long, 20 wide, exclu- 

 sive of the water closet and scullery which 



(Fio. 1.) 



SCALE 





GROUND-PLAN OF WEST PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL. 



project from the pavilion, 14 feet high to the tened ellipsoidal form, 16 feet wide, and 2,400 

 eaves, and 19 feet to the ridge. These pa- feet long, enclosing an area of 541,466 squiiro 

 vilions project in radii from a corridor of flat- feet. Across the shorter diameter of the ellip- 



