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Nurses'
home.
Matters affecting individual hospitals.
59. In the following paragraphs we refer in detail to certain matters which
affect, in particular, individual hospitals.
Banstead Mental Hospital.
60. The scheme for the remodelling and modernisation of large blocks at
Banstead mental hospital was completed during the year. As a result an increased
number of wards has been provided, necessitating an augmented staff. The
Council, on our recommendation, has authorised the erection of a nurses' home to
accommodate an assistant matron, four sisters, and 62 nurses. The plans of the
home have been approved by the Minister of Health, and work will be commenced
in the ensuing year (see paragraph 7).
Grazing of
cattle.
Cane Hill Mental Hospital.
61. For some years past cattle from Cane Hill mental hospital have been
grazed on two farms. The owner of one of the farms terminated the arrangement
from 31st December, 1928. To provide temporarily grazing for the cattle displaced
from this farm, we have arranged to take over for nine months from Christmas,
1928, a grazing licence on land at Southern's Farm, Chipstead, on suitable terms.
Supply of
electricity.
Claybury mental hospital.
62. We have made an arrangement with the Ilford Borough Council for the
supply of electric current to Claybury mental hospital under an agreement for ten
years, at the rate of £8 per annum, per kilowatt, of maximum demand, plus l^d.
per unit for all current used, and for a mutual revision of the charge for current
every three years from the date of connection of a supply.
Construction
of north
circular road.
Colney Hatch mental hospital.
63. The route proposed for the north circular road, now in course of construction
by the Middlesex County Council, passes through the Colney Hatch mental
hospital estate, and we have been in negotiation with the Middlesex County Council
for some years as to the line of the road and as to the terms upon which land forming
part of the hospital estate is to be surrendered to the Middlesex County Council for
the purposes of the road. It has been agreed that, in order to minimise interference