ANIMAL DISEASE RESEARCH INSTALLATIONS ON RIEMS ISLAND

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: May 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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ANIMAL DISEASE RESEARCH iNSTALLATI( TS ON RIEMS ISLAND (Lt pp;
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This a-page document consists of a photostatic copy of a sketch of the installations
on the Island of Riems in the Baltic Sea, off the northern coast of the Sovzqne of Germany,
together with a listing of the installations. Attention is called to the fact that, while
the island has been drawn to proper scale, the buildings have not been sketched in the
proper proportions.
The following installations are listed by numbers corresponding to those indicated
on the sketch' 1) New cable railway for passenger and freight service, 2) Old cable railway
for freight and livestock, 3) Motorboat route to the mainland (Kalkwwitz), Ii) Cable car
station with loading ramp, 5) Horsebarn and farm buildings, 6) Animal compound with individual
stalls for experimental animals, 7) Presidential residence Csic7, 8) Farm buildings and school,
9) Superintendent's residence, 10) Motorboat. docks, 11) Assistantst residence (2-family),
12) Casino, containing music room, dining rooms, two kitchens ,t ping-pong room, guest rooms
with baths, and parlors, 13) Ten-room physicians' quarters, 1tj,) Ten-room employees' quarters,
15) Workers' quarters, 16) Workers' quarters, 17) Canteen with motion picture theater and
commissary, 18) Workers' quarters, 19) Workers' quarters, 20) Isolation barns, capacity
800 to.l,000 head of cattle, 21) Institute containing slaughterhouse, refrigeration rooms,
and refuse-liquefying unit (liquid manure), 22) New institute containing the following:
Basement-Installations for the production of viruses and serums, storage and shipping facili-
ties; Ground Floor-Chemical laboratory and shower rooms; Second Floor-President's office,
secretariat, commercial section, library and auditorium; Third Floor-Laboratories (pathology,
histology, microscopy, etc.) and five or six modern experimental laboratories; Attic-Experi-
mental animals (small animals, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice) and storage rooms for laboratory
equipment, 23) Former institute, at present containing the administration office and cashier's
offices telephone switchboard, personnel office, accounting office, drafting office and
technical section, 2L) Isolation rooms, 25) Harbor with crane installations for the unloading
of supplies, coal and cattle, 26) Shops and machine sheds (carpenter shop, smithy, and all
other ordinary shop unit components), 27) Boiler roam, 28) Power plant (2 Diesel assemblies
which furnish the island with elebtric power, making it completely independent of the main-
land, 29) Former experimental laboratory intended for the development of especially virulent
series of tests. At present badly damaged, and dismantled. The building is empty., 30) Water
conduits at sea level, supplying the island with drinking water.
On the mainland, opposite the island, directly adjacent to the cable railwa
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docks, lies the Kalkwitz residential area belonging to the Island of Riems, with its three
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This abstract contains the total information given in the document 7
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22 May 1952
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