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Horton menial hospital—continued.
New road, south boundary £134 7 9
Shed, dispensary stores 29 8 3
Lavatory basin and electric wall plugs, isolation hospital 19 14 8
Fencing meadows 191 19 6
Water supply to meadows 97 18 1
Alterations to boundary fence 27 18 8
Power-driven flour hoist at bakery 54 6 5
Hot water boiler at medical superintendent's house 16 13 7
Removing kitchener and installing modern stove, Shrubbery house 24 6 9
Cupboards in laundry 14 12 2
Three loose boxes at farm 227 14 6
Slop sink in ward 3 24 14 1
Long Grove mental hospital.
Power refrigerator plant, provision (part of estimated cost £900) 76 10 11
Farm fencing 9 15 10
Letter boxes in wards 20 5 6
Conversion of window to door, matron's sitting room 11 16 10
New boiler feed pump 129 15 6
West Park mental hospital.
Isolation hospital, adaptation for induced malarial treatment 49 19 5
Seat in airing court, El and E2 wards 12 14 1
Concrete bases for dustbins 17 2 11
Maudsley hospital.
Pipe coils in ward side rooms 10198
Slop sink in corridor lavatory for use of domestic staff 19 16 8
Gas fires in clinical assistants' and medical officers' dining rooms 13 19 10
Matters affecting individual hospitals.
61. In the following paragraphs we refer in detail to certain matters which
affect, in particular, individual hospitals.
Banstead Mental Hospital.
Modernisation
of wards.
62. The modernisation of the large chronic blocks, (three male and five female),
has been proceeded with; work on two blocks, J and K (male) has been completed
and that on blocks M (male) and B (female) is in progress. The female blocks C, D, E
and F remain to be dealt with.
Renewal of
steam boilers.
63. In our last report we made reference to the need for renewal of the steam
boilers at the hospital. One new boiler has been installed and a contract has been
entered into with Messrs. John Thompson (Wolverhampton) Limited, for the
installation of three others. The total cost of the four boilers is estimated at £9,850.
Legacy.
64. A legacy of £100 has been left to the hospital by the sister of a patient.
Bexley Mental Hospital.
Purchase of
land.
65. An offer made by the owner of the Baldwyn's estate to sell approximately
14 acres of land to the Council, at £100 an acre was, on our recommendation, accepted
and the purchase has been duly completed: possession was taken on 11th February,
1927. The land will be added to the hospital farm.
Cane Hill Mental Hospital.
Lease of
land.
66. A lease has been granted to H.M. Government of a plot of land 70 feet by
130 feet, on the hospital estate, for a term of 99 years at an annual rental of £30, to
provide a site for a post office telephone exchange.
Cinematograph.
67. A cinematograph apparatus has been installed in the hospital, and the
first performance was given on Saturday, 27th November, 1926.