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Hall; patients return to that end of the Hall and wait their turn
at another Dispensary wicket for their medicines, and so pass out
at the Eastern end.
At the Eastern angle of the building is a Kitchen, where cooking
lessons will be given, and where light refreshments will be sold
to patients while awaiting their turn.
There is a patients' lavatory at the Eastern end of the Hall,
and staff lavatories on the Southern side.
A staircase at the Eastern end leads down to the Boiler Room
and Coal Store, and up to a Caretaker's flat, which consists of
Living Room 12 ft. 4 ins. by 11 ft.9 ins.; Scullery, two bedrooms,
and a bathroom and lavatory.
The Maternity Centre is very solidly built of brick and faced
with Crowborough bricks externally, and roofed with "Roman"
tiles. The flat roofs and floor of the Caretaker's flat are of fireresisting
material.
All the doors leading from the Hall are of teak, so as to minimise
the cost of upkeep in painting and to withstand the hardest wear.
The floors generally are of an asbestic material called "Decolite,"
but the entrance corridor, bathroom and lavatories, and the
kitchen, are tiled.
In addition to central heating and hot water boilers in the
basement, all rooms have gas fires so that they can be warmed
easily during cold spells in the summer months when the heating
boiler is not working.
At the back of the building is a tar paved playground 50 feet
by 40 feet.
The Contractors were Messrs. Chessums, Limited, of Imperial
Works, Portland Road, Tottenham, N.15, and the Architect was
Mr. E. Stanley Hall, M.A., F.R.I.B.A., F.R.San.I., of 54, Bedford
Square, W.C.I.