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concerned, in staggered formation upon the four walls, the remaining
four lamps being fitted into a bronze pillar, which rises from
the centre of the floor. The elements of these mercury vapour
lamps are recessed into the hollow walls of the room, so that the
edge of the lamp reflector is flush with the inner wall of the room.
Suspended from the ceiling in each of the floodlight rooms there are
eight Sollux radiant heat lamps. The floor of the room is marked
with a pathway, and the position of the lamps has been so calculated
as to give an equal radiation to patients following this path.
In the floodlight room on the female side this pathway is bounded
on either side by an oak rail, eighteen inches high. Toddlers of
both sexes receive collective treatment in this room, and while
acting as a guard to prevent the children from touching the
lamps, the rail at the same time keeps them within the sphere of
optimum radiation. The lamps of the floodlight rooms are operated
from a separate small, adjacent control room, so that it is not
necessary for the nurse to enter the floodlit area herself in order to
switch the lights on or off. On both male and female sides of the
Solarium, cubicles are provided in which adult patients receive
light treatment. These are seven in number on each side, and
are sufficiently large to take a treatment couch, a duotherapy unit
or two separate units, and to allow comfortable space for undressing.
A commodious room on each side is set aside for massage
treatment and for remedial exercises, and these rooms are suitably
equipped with the appropriate apparatus. One small sterilising
room for the use of the whole floor is situated in the male section,
and in addition there is a nurses' room and a small bathroom is
attached to the staff lavatory. With the exception of the massage
rooms the floor surface of this section is of rubber throughout as in
the Maternity and Child Welfare section.
Second Floor—X-ray Department, Dental Clinic, Public Analyst.
The second floor of the building is occupied by the dental
clinic, the X-ray department and the laboratory of the public
analyst.
The dental clinic comprises a waiting room, dental nurse's
office, two recovery rooms, two dental surgeries, dental surgeon's