THE LYTTELTON ORPHANAGE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1846, 22 January 1880, Page 3

THE LYTTELTON ORPHANAGE.

It is expected that the children belonging to this institution will be brought back from Q.uail Island thiß week. The improvement resulting from their removal has been twofold, the children themselves having very much benefite d in health by the chaDge, while the Orphanage premises have been completely overhauled. The work has almoßt all been performed by prison labor and done most effectually. Every movable thing in and around the place was either scraped, scrubbed, or washed, as were also the floors, the wainsootting, and tho woodwork of the forty rooms comprising the establishment. The plaster work, which in nearly every room was badly cracked and broken, has been repaired, and all the ceilings and walls whitened and colored. The same thorough cleansing has been carried out in the kitchens and Echoolrooms. Since the town water supply has been added to the conveniences 'of the building there is no longer any use for the large concrete tanks under the yard, and these have been pumped out and will be cemented up. The stormwater which hitherto found its way underneath the building is to bo carried off in concrete channels now being formed around the premises, ar.il which canneci with the main Bewer. Mar.y other improvements in the drainage of tho place will fce rnado within the next few days. The EBphalt at the back of the building has been I'iid well up to the woodwork, thoroughly closing tho baso of the building against the admission of surface water, and preventing it from getting under the ground floors. No labor has be.-n spared in providing for the sanitary regulation and conveniences of the premises. If a suggestion may be made apropos of these by a visitor, it would be that the keeping of poultry in the yards and about the place be prohibited. All ■peed is being made in completing the works Above referred to.