Ultimately there should be a separate building for the department of public works; but for the immediate future one wing of the administrative building may be set apart for the engineers and surveyors, for the electrical department, and the departments of sewers, water, and gas, and the superintendent of streets. The need of special quarters for this division of the public service arises not only from the extent and character of the work of the various bureaus, but also because of the great number of people who of necessity resort to them in order to obtain permits for constructing and repairing buildings, for establishing electrical, gas, and water connections, and to transact the vast amount of business arising in a department that affects every business, institution, and home. The department of public health, requiring extensive laboratories, should include an emergency hospital, rooms for the commission on insanity, and a detention place for the insane, as well as a bureau of vital statistics; offices for the health, food, and milk inspectors; quarters for the coroner, including autopsy and inquest rooms and a public morgue. The hall of records should be accessible to the courts and the other departments of the public service, and to the general public. The building should be so constructed as to secure its contents from possible danger from fire or the results of dampness; and it should be so arranged and administered as to make the records immediately available. The court-house building offers architectural opportunities of the first order; and here again the dignity, majesty, and impartiality of justice should be made manifest in every appointment, so as to teach the lesson that “obedience to law is liberty.” The highest of the city courts, with chambers for the judges; the grand jury quarters; trial jury rooms, with accommodations for lodging juries over night; the offices of the district attorney; the marriage license department; and the law library should be housed in this edifice. To the building used as the police headquarters would be assigned the central police court with its official clerks, stenographers, bailiffs, bond and warrant officers; the city prison, with its complement of vaults for criminal records of all kinds; the headquarters of the chief of police and of the staff of detectives; a drill-room, assembly-room, gymnasium, and practice gallery for shooting, and arsenal. One reason for making this building one of the civic group is to promote the convenience of the citizens who are called to the court for jury duty or as witnesses.