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A kitchen which has lately been fitted up on my 

 principles, in the new hospital for the infirm and help- 

 less poor, which is situated on the height called the 

 Gasteig, on the side of the river opposite to the town 

 of Munich, is much more interesting, and is a good 

 model for imitation. 



The Kitchen of the Hospital of La Pieta at Verona 



Is peculiarly interesting, on account of its convenient 

 form and the perfect symmetry of its parts. 



The mass of brick-work in which the boilers are 

 fixed occupies the middle of one side of a large high 

 room, which is plastered and white-washed, and neatly 

 paved. The covers of the large boilers are lifted up by 

 ropes which go over pulleys fixed to the ceiling of the 

 top of the room ; but were I to build the kitchen 

 again, I should substitute wooden covers with steam- 

 chimneys instead of them, such in all respects as that 

 belonging to the large round copper boiler in the 

 kitchen of the House of Industry at Munich. When 

 the covers are so large that they cannot conveniently 

 be lifted on and off with the hand, they should, in my 

 opinion, always be made of wood, and divided into 

 parts, united by hinges. When they are designed for 

 confining the steam entirely, they should be made on 

 a peculiar construction, which will hereafter be de- 

 scribed. The covers for small boilers, and those for 

 saucepans, should always be of tin, and double. 



The grates on which the fires are made under the 

 boilers in the kitchen of the Hospital of La Pieta are 

 circular ; but they are not hollow, or dishing, as that 

 improvement did not occur to me till after that kitchen 

 was finished. The spiral flues under the boilers are 



