Is fitted up with every appropriate conveniency, such as coppers for
boiling, large wooden troughs for washing, with two pipes leading
to each, one conveying hot, the other cold water. There is a large
drying yard in front, with poles and lines to dry the linen in fine
weather; but in wet weather, the drying is conducted in a stove room,
remarkably warm and commodiously fitted for the purpose. The immense
piles of linen collected from all parts of the house are washed here:
two laundry women conduct this business, and are assisted by such of
the female patients as are able and willing, and can be safely trusted;
they also assist in getting it up. The whole is brought clean and
regularly to each gallery on Saturday morning, when the patients’ linen
is entirely changed, and the foul returned to the laundry.