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HARVEY KLAPP,
Attending Physician.

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All those persons were not confined to their beds in the Sick-room-but received the sare atsention in administration as their diseases called for.

189

DISEASES IN THE HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA PRISON.
TABLE OF THE DISEASES

[MARCH

IN THE

HOSPITAL OF THE PHILADELPHIA PRISON.

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General report of Cases admitted into the Hospital of the Philadelphia Prison; giving the number of diseases in each month, and the number of cases under each morbid affection for the year 1829.

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Of this number there were

Cured,

203

Discharged, relieved,

37

Discharged, time of sentence expired,

6

Discharged, pardoned,

2

Died,

34

Total terminated cases.

Remaining under treatment on the 31 of Dec. 1829,

Monthly Statement of Admissions and Deaths.

Admissions.

January,

33

February,

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The following statement of the comparative consumption of gas, oil,& candles, with equal depth of shadows, & the proportional illuminating powers of each, as shown by experiments, may afford interest to some persons, and (which would be desirable) induce such as have leisure, and the means, to pursue the subject and show how far future experiments shall confirm, or lead to different results.

It is proper to state, that the Gas was from coal, at the Baltimore Company's works, issuing under a pres sure of six tenths of an inch, that the oil was of the best winter strained spermaceti, the mould candles of the best kind, four to the pound, and the dipt candles of good quality, six to the pound. Further, that the Gas Argand was one inch diameter, from aperture to aperfure, with eighteen perforations of one thirtieth of an inch, that the oil Argand was also one inch diameter, the reservoir containing from one quart to six gills of oil, and in the first experiments consumed at the rate of about one pint in ten hours; and in the second course of experiments at the rate of about half a pint in the same time, and that each Argand was fixed with a straight, chimney glass. And, it may be also necessary to observe, that in a gas burner of the above size, or indeed any gas Argand burner, the gas in consuming, shows, and burns, to great disadvantage, when issuing at a rate less than that to which its construction is adapted; and more par

Diseases in the Fatal Cases, with the Number of Deaths ticularly in those of large size, for, in the size above

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stated, the consumption is intended to be from four to five feet the hour.

The two lamps were placed at the distance of nineteen feet four inches from a wall, on which a sheet of white paper was fixed,-the oil light was urged to its greatest intensity, and the gas graduated till the shadows from an interposed card were ascertained to equal; the gas flame was then one and a quarter inch high,and the metre indicated two and a half feet to the hour: hence about a pint of oil under these circumstances, was found equal to twenty-five feet of gas.

Experiment 2. The gas flame was raised to two inches high, and the consumption was three and a half feet to the hour; the consumption of the oil as before, and a mould candle burning at the rate of two and one fourth inches in one hour, was contrasted with each in succession, in the manner before described. The proportions were as follows:

Gas to Oil as 1,820 to 1,000 Gas to Candle as 5,275 to 1,000 Oil to Candle as 2,900 to 1,000 Experiment 3. The gas flame was raised to two inches and one quarter high, and the consumption was four feet to the hour; the consumption of oil as before. The proportions were:

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quarter inches, and the consumption four feet to the considered; and the Board have the pleasure to state hour. The proportions were: that five hundred dollars have been added to the permanent fund from this source.

Gas to Oil as 4,000 to 1,000

In conformity with the directions of the company at

from bequests and donations, has been invested in safe and productive stocks.

The gas in every instance when the flame was increased in height and consequently in consumption, decreas-its last annual meeting, the amount of money received ing, to a disproportionate degree, the relative strength of light from the oil. It was found, that the gas burn. er could be urged with effect to a consumption of six feet to the hour, diffusing a most brilliant and soft light to the eye, but the oil could not be urged beyond about one pint to the ten hours, effectively: and the light was better in proportion to the less consumption between that rate, and about half a pint in the same time.

Believing that the object of the association would be promoted by presenting to the public occasional notices of its character, with a record of the number of ap plicants for its benefits, the publication of a monthly report of its location and uses has been commenced; and it is hoped a more lively interest in its affairs will thus

The result of similar experiments, on gas compound-be created in the community. ed of equal volumes of rosin and coal gas, and on oil gas, would differ, probably, in proportion to their different densities, as the proportion of light from cach, has been found nearly in that ratio. Experiments to ascertain their relative specific gravities shew the result, in round numbers, nearly as follows:

Oil

Rosin and Coal Coal

800

600

400

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

L.

APPRENTICES' LIBRARY COMPANY, Of Philadelphia-Read March 8, 1830. To the Apprentices Library Co. of Philad. The term for which the interests of the institution were committed to their care having expired, the board of managers submit a report of their operations for the past year, and an exposition of the present state of its affairs.

Upon the organization of the board, committees were appointed, charged with the purchase and preservation of the books, with the care of the room and furniture, and with the auditing of the accounts; and in the discharge of the duties thus devolved upon them, have materially contributed to the usefulness of the institution.

Since the last report, upwards of 1450 volumes have been added to the Library, of which number about 1130 were procured by purchase, and 320 have been received as donations, 489 volumes have been rebound. The collection now consists of about six thousand volumes, and comprises a large portion of the best elementary works in the various departments of science and useful literature, with many that can be consulted with advantage by those who have enjoyed the benefits of a good education.

The average monthly number of boys who have used the library during the last year, is about 682, of whom 584 were new applicants. In the regularity of their attendance at the room upon the days appointed for the delivery of books, their correct deportment when there, and the care which is taken of the works entrusted to them, the most satisfactory evidence is afforded of the just appreciation of the institution by the objects of its patronage.

In the same period 65 new members have been add ed to the company. $1001 66, have been expended for the purchase and rebinding of books, salaries of the librarians, and in defraying the incidental expenses of the establishment.

In addition to the sum reported at the last annual meeting of the company, $1065 12, have been received from the executors of the will of the late John Grandom, under the decision of the Orphans' Court, as the residuary portion of his estate, except the sum of $20, yet due from one of the executors.

An application was made to the Executors of the late William McKenzie, that in distributing the sum at their disposal for division amongst charitable institutions, the claims of the Apprentices' Library might be

Ten years have now elapsed since the foundation of this institution, and while we regret that it has not received the share of favour to which it is entitled by its acknowledged merit, we rejoice that its usefulness has not been circumscribed by the narrow limits of public bounty, and hope that in a still wider extension of its benefits the most sanguine expectations of its founders will be realized. Having for its object the diffusion of useful knowledge among that class of the community which is most exposed to the injurious influence of vicious associations, and the rendering of the leisure hours of the youth, as conductive to his moral excellence as the time spent in the workshop is to his mechanical skill; the Apprentices' Library recommends itself by every valuable consideration to the most extended public patronage.

In again appealing to the members of the company, and through them to their fellow citizens, for their continued support, the board of managers indulge the hope that means will not be withheld from an institution so valuable as an auxiliary in the preservation of public peace and the promotion of private virtue; and whose interests are so nearly allied to that system of general education to which the attention of the inhabitants of this commonwealth is now ardently directed. PHILIP GARRETT, Chairman. SAMUEL MASON, Jr. Secretary. Philadelphia, 3d mo. 4th, 1830.

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