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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The Isolation Hospital, established in 1889, has grown from
an institution containing only ten beds to one with accommodation
for one hundred and thirty patients. In 1922 the Hospital became
the joint property of Hornsey, Finchley and Wood Green, and in
July, 1927, certain important extensions were opened by Mr.
G. L. T. Locker-Lampson, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs and Member of Parliament for Wood Green. These
extensions include a nurses' home containing thirty-nine bedrooms
and certain public rooms, a gate-porter's lodge, and an isolation
block of twenty beds in cubicle wards. In addition, certain
alterations were made in the existing administrative block.
It will be seen from the attached plan that this isolation
block is built in the shape of a cross with a central duty room,
octagonal in shape, measuring 22 feet from side to side. Each
cubicle is 12 feet deep, 10 feet wide and 10 feet high, and is
separated by plate-glass partitions from those adjoining. In this
way an uninterruped view of the interior of all the cubicles is
obtained from the duty room. Each limb of the cross contains
five cubicles, and at the end of each limb is a sanitary annexe.
Two of these annexes are provided with discharge rooms. The
detached block opposite the duty room contains a linen room,
10 feet by 9 feet 6 inches, a larder and a staff lavatory and water
closet. A glazed verandah, 7 feet wide, runs in front of the
entrances to all cubicles. The boiler house, which lies underneath
the duty room, has three separate coke boilers, one for the
ordinary hot water supply, another for the radiator circulation,
and a third for the Manlove-Alliott disinfector (placed in the
duty room), which is used for the disinfection of all dishes and
cutler}'. The fittings and furnishings are simple. Each cubicle
has its own wash-hand basin and three-fold screen on a frame
work of enamelled iron. Three overalls hang inside each room.
Bedpans, numbered to correspond with the number of the
cubicles, are kept in racks in special sluice rooms at the end of
cach limb. Separate towels, hair-brushes, tongue-depressors and
such like are provided in each cubicle. All the beds are 2 feet
6 inches wide, except those in the four end cubicles, which are
8 feet wide. Doors are made sufficiently wide to allow beds to
be wheeled out on to the verandah.