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and female sections are separated from one another by a central
nurses control room, communicating by a short corridor with a
common consulting room for the whole floor. This arrangement
makes it possible for patients of both sexes, while being completely
separated from one another, to communicate with the nurses'
control room, both from the treatment rooms and from the dressing
rooms. It also gives the nurses adequate control over both of
these rooms, and allows access to the consulting room from both
male and female sections. The general arrangements and facilities
provided are similar, though not exactly identical, for both sexes.
The dressing rooms have an independent entrance from the stairways
so that on coming into this department patients first enter
the dressing rooms, male patients making use of the main staircase,
while female patients enter from the second door in Alscot
Road. The dressing rooms are furnished with an admirable
arrangement of wall panels and screens of oak, made in the
Council's workshops, and to each patient is allotted two clothes
hooks and a locker with a lift up seat; in addition in the female
side there are three dressing cubicles for ante-natal patients.
Lavatory accommodation for patients is attached to the dressing
rooms, and each dressing room is fitted with a hot and cold
shower. Patients can communicate readily with the nurses'
control room by means of a bell and a sliding glass panel, and
similarly by means of a system of electric bells and signs, the
nurse can call the next patient from the dressing room to the
treatment rooms or cubicles without herself making a journey to
the dressing room. Slotted case sheet cupboards are fitted on
each side of the nurses' control room, so that the patient's case
record can be obtained with the minimum of trouble. Adjacent
to the nurses' room, on each side, there are four cubicles, properly
equipped, for the administration of diathermy, and other forms
of local treatment, and on the female side there is provided a
specially constructed treatment table, with four compartments,
for the irradiation of infants. There is a flooded light room in
both male and female sections for collective treatment, especially
of groups of children. Each of these floodlight rooms is fitted
with sixteen Hanovia lamps distributed, in so far as twelve are