Ontario Provincial Board of Health Annual Report, 1913
Reports of the Provincial Sanitary Engineer, M.D. pg. 49
Kingston, March 11th.
Upon the request of Mr. E. E. Rogers, Inspector of Prisons and Asylums, and Dr. E. Ryan, Superintendent of the Rockwood Hospital for the Insane, an examination was made of the proposed changes in the sewage disposal system for the institution at Rockwood. The plans were not recommended for adoption owing to the fact that a system of the kind suggested required considerable manual labour in and about the beds and that, in addition, considerable supervision would be needed. Both these requirements are objectionable in dealing with institutional plants, such as at the hospital at Rockwood.
An alternative scheme was suggested, involving the use of an automatic distributor of the water-wheel type. Upon further request of Mr. Rogers, plans were prepared covering the changes proper for the construction of such system: these were made in the office of the Provincial Board of Health. The work called for by these plans involved an estimated expenditure of $5,000, the major portion of the expenditure being for the extension to the existing building and for the distributing apparatus. The plans were accepted and the work is now under construction and will be in operation about June 30th, 1911.