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enabling it to be used as a discharging room. The bath is a
portable one, and mounted on rubber wheels.
The nurses' duty room is fixed with a kitchen stove with hot
water apparatus, a sink, small larder, large cupboard, kitchen
dresser, medicine cupboard, and a telephone communicating with
the administration block.
The Isolation Block is used for Diphtheria and Typhoid
Fever, and consists of two wards, or half a block ; the other half to
be completed when more accommodation is required. Each ward
is 24ft. by 18ft. and rjft. in height, and accommodates three beds
and a cot in each ward. A duty room similar to that of the ward
block is provided between the wards. The sanitary accommodation
is outside and separate from the block, but is under a
verandah which runs along one side of the block. The doors
of the wards and duty room open on to this verandah only.
These wards are heated by open regenerating grates, and
lighted and ventilated by windows similar to those of the ward
block.
All angles of walls, floors, ceilings, and woodwork in both
blocks are constructed with rounded surfaces.
The Administrative Block contains dispensary, Matron and
Nurses' sitting room, store room, kitchen, scullery, coal store,
and bedrooms for nine persons,—the nursing staff" and servants.
The building is so designed that it can readily be enlarged to
accommodate an increased staff".
The Laundry Block is supplied with a high pressure boiler,
which supplies steam for boiling all water required in the
Laundry. All steeping and washing of clothes is done in glazed
stoneware troughs. A set of clothes-horses 011 runners are provided
in a special chamber, heated with steam, for drying and
airing clothes and linen when outdoor drying is unavailable. The
same boiler also supplies steam for the steam disinfecting
apparatus. Adjoining the Laundry is a mortuary.
The Entrance Lodge contains a parlour, kitchen-living-room