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office and mechanics' workshop, to which is attached a separate
plaster room. Dental patients enter by the main entrance in
Grange Road, and the waiting room and nurse's office face the
lift gate and staircase landing on the second floor.
Each of the dental surgeries is fully equipped for every variety
of dental operation. Both surgeries are of ample size with good
natural lighting. One of the surgeries is, however, considerably
larger than the other, and was deliberately so designed by Dr.
Grantley Smith, in order that it might be used especially for
operations under general anaesthesia. Speaking generally, the
smaller surgery is intended for the finer operations and for 'clean'
cases, and the larger surgery is reserved for gas operations, and
for the more septic cases, and for this reason there is direct access
from the larger surgery through folding doors to the recovery
rooms. The dental equipment from the old clinic at 110 Grange
Road has been installed in the large surgery, and this includes a
complete dental X-ray outfit. The smaller surgery has been
provided with equipment of the very latest type, which I am
sure affords the utmost satisfaction to Dr. Grantley Smith. In
actual practice, of course, the provision of two surgeries makes
it possible for the dental surgeon to deal conveniently and expeditiously
with a much larger number of patients than could be
given attention in the old dental clinic. The dental workshop
which adjoins the dental surgeon's office must be, I think, as
nearly as possible ideal for its purpose. It is commodious, has
excellent natural lighting, is fully equipped and has a separate
plaster and vulcanising room. The latter provision is in itself a
great advantage in that it enables the untidiness inseparable
from this kind of work to be kept within reasonable bounds.
This workshop is occupied by the three prosthetic assistants, who
do the whole of the mechanical work, both for Dr. Grantley
Smith and for Mr. Shapland at the Rotherhithe Centre.
The X-ray department adjoins the dental clinic, being
separated from it by Dr. Telfer's office. This department consists
of three rooms, an X-ray room, a dark room, and a small viewing
room. Patients enter by the second door in Alscot Road, a