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grounds immediately surrounding the house will be for the
use of patients; the remaining part of the grounds will be let
on a rental to the Beautification Committee.
Method of adapting Fairby Grange for use as a Convalescent
Home.
Ground Floor. — The dining-room will seat comfortably 21
persons, i.e., 15 adults and six toddlers, so that all the
patients will be able to sit down to each meal at the same time
when the home is full. A hatch has been constructed between
the dining-room and kitchen thus facilitating the service of
meals and avoiding the necessity of extra kitchen staff. The
kitchen is large and well lit and ample for the purpose of
the home. A recess from the kitchen has been fitted as a
small sitting-room for the kitchen staff. Adjoining the kitchen
is a scullery and a wash-house, together with a butler's pantry,
which will be used as a storeroom. The wash-house is fitted
with a copper and two special washing places, which will be
utilised for the washing of baby clothes.
At the end of the second corridor on the ground floor is the
billiard room. This is a large room and will be used as a day
room for mothers and babies and toddlers. Next to the billiard
room there is a smaller room, which will be shared by the
matron and nurse as a sitting-room and office. Like the
billiard room, this room has a separate door opening on to the
garden. The last room in this corridor is a reception room
eminently suitable as a quiet room for the mothers. This
room has a door opening on to a verandah, so that it will
be possible for mothers to rest in this room while their babies
sleep in prams in the open air on the verandah outside.
First Floor. —The nursery on this floor will be used as a
room in which the babies will be dried and clothed. This
room is opposite the two bathrooms in which the babies will