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with the hospital grounds, the road shall follow the boundary of the hospital estate
as closely as possible, and the Council, on our recommendation, has agreed to
surrender to the Middlesex County Council about six acres of the hospital estate
necessary for the construction of the road, in exchange for about 15 acres of land
adjoining the hospital estate, and to surrender to the Friern Barnet Urban District
Council, or to the Middlesex County Council, whichever may be the appropriate
authority, a small area of land about 3,050 square feet, forming part of the garden
of a cottage on the hospital estate, which is required to enable an adjacent road
(Cromwell-road) to be connected with the new arterial road, in exchange for an area
of about 7,000 square feet adjoining the hospital grounds. The construction of
the new road will involve the severance from the remainder of the hospital estate
of about nine acres of arable land on the south side of the road. Access to this
land, which will continue to be used for the purposes of the hospital, will be provided
by means of suitable gates to be erected in the fencing on each side of the road.
64. The well at Colney Hatch mental hospital was shut down on 6th June,
1928, in order that it might be deepened, and all water required has been taken
from the Barnet and District Gas and Water Company since that date. An agreement
with the company for the supply of water to the hospital provides, inter alia,
for a charge of Is. 3d. a thousand gallons, if a supply should be needed to meet a
temporary breakdown in the supply from the hospital well. As we were advised
that the closing of the well in order that it might be deepened did not constitute
a temporary breakdown within the meaning of the agreement, we agreed, during
the period of deepening the well, to pay at the same rate as other large consumers
in the district for such water as was used. At 31st March, 1929, the work of deepening
the well was approaching completion and it was expected that early in the ensuing
year the supply of water from the well would again be adequate for the purposes of
the hospital.
Water
supply.
65. To safeguard the Council's position, we lodged a formal objection against
a town planning scheme of the Friern Barnet Urban District Council which included
the grounds of Colney Hatch mental hospital.
Town
planning
scheme.
Hanwell Mental Hospital.
66. Hanwell mental hospital, the original design of which dates from the first
half of the nineteenth century, hitherto has not possessed an admission hospital,
and the Council, on our recommendation has approved the erection on a suitable
site at the hospital of an admission hospital villa, designed on modern lines, which
will accommodate 100 patients, 50 of each sex. This provision, besides giving
facilities for classification and treatment which are now recognised to be essential,
will increase the total accommodation of the hospital. Plans which the Minister
of Health has approved provide for a building with two wings, one for men and one
for women, each of which will contain special treatment rooms in addition to
dormitory and day room accommodation, and there will be a central section comprising
a kitchen to serve both sides, dining rooms and a recreation room for the
independent or joint use of male and female patients. We hope that work will
be commenced in the ensuing year.
Admission
villa.
Horton Mental Hospital.
67. At Horton mental hospital, which was opened in 1902, no provision has
existed hitherto in the admission hospital for the segregation of difficult and noisy
cases. To remedy this we have authorised the erection of a small building, as an
annexe to " A " admission hospital. This annexe will contain three single rooms,
and will provide also rooms for special treatment, e.g., electrical and Plombiere
treatment.
Annexe to
admission
hospital.
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