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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southgate 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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disinfecting apparatus and mortuary attached; and (5) an
entrance lodge.
The following amounts were sanctioned by the Local Government Board to be borrowed for the purpose of the Hospital:-
| (1) Purchase of land | £2,500 |
| (2) Fencing, draining, etc., of site, and building entrance lodge | 1,600 |
| (3) Erecting Hospital Buildings | 8,400 |
| (4) Furniture | 600 |
| £13,100 |
The ward block is used entirely for Scarlet Fever cases, and
consists of two wards, one 36ft. by 26ft. and 13ft. in height, for
women and children, and the other 26ft. by 24ft. and 13ft. in
height, for men, with a nurse's duty room between them, arranged
so that the nurse-in-charge can look through a small fixed window
into each ward. The male ward was designed to accommodate
four beds and one cot, and the female ward six beds and one
cot. But the air and floor space allowed was so ample that I
find I can put up two extra beds or cots in each ward and still
maintain sufficient air space. Lavatory and w.c. accommodation
are provided at the ends of each ward, accessible from the ward
only, but provided with a cross ventilation lobby.
The wards are lighted and ventilated by large windows
reaching to the ceiling on each side of the wards, and provided
with fanlights which open inwards. Thorough cross ventilation
is thus obtained. The wards are heated by special stoves in
the centre of each, having downward flues carried under the
floors to external chimney shafts attached to the building.
The floors are of two kinds, that of one ward consisting of
Terazzo, and the other of pitch-pine blocks. The walls are
distempered with Duresco, with a dado of oil paint.
There is also in this block a store cupboard for linen, bedding,
etc., and a bath room, arranged with a door leading outside,