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at other Council Dwellings, hut it should hp remarked that the rooms in this schcme
will he considerably larger than those at Regency Street Dwellings. A great advantage
in this instance i.s that there are practically no tenants to be displaced. The
dwellings will be built over the site of old workshops no longer in use and vacant yards.
The other two illustrations show plans of the new Tuberculosis Dispensary and
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre. It should be noted that these institutions
will form the ground floor and first floors of the same building as they do in the
present premises at 1, Pimlico Road. The accommodation, however, will be considerably
greater and will allow for the proper development of the work which hitherto
has been seriously hampered owing to the cramped space and inconvenient arrangement
of the old building.
A special feature of the new Tuberculosis Dispensary w ill be a large room for the
handicraft class for tuberculosis patients. This class which is conducted entirely
on a voluntary basis has existed for over two and a half years. By its means patients
who return from sanatorium unfit for their old employment or for other reasons
unable to re-enter it are trained in some branch of handicraft. Their enforced
leisure is thus usefully occupied and their minds are diverted from dwelling on their
ailments.
In the new Maternity and Child Welfare Centre the Sun rooms and open air
balconies deserve notice; also the large waiting room which can be used for lectures.
There is also an additional waiting room for expectant mothers opening off the doctor's
room.
The two schemes have been designed by the architects of the Ebury Bridge
Scheme and form part of the general lay-out.