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Nine bedrooms for nurses.
Six bedrooms for maids.
Bathroom and lavatory accommodation and
storage space and " service " for meals served l.y
a lift from the kitchen on the ground floor.
The laundry building provides a garage 18ft x 14ft.,
post mortem and view room, and a laundry 18ft x lift.,
and the isolation unit provides accommodation for two
isolation wards, with duty room, hath and lavatory accommodation,
sluice room, etc., on the ground floor, with
the boiler attendant's quarters on the first floor.
The buildings are constructed of solid brick walls
faced with multi-coloured bricks and artificial stone
dressings, with a steel framed and pantiled roof. Th'»
floors to the ground, and first floors are of fire-resisting
construction throughout, and the flat roofs over the projecting
wings are also of fire-resisting construction, insulated
and covered with asphalt. The floors and ceilings
are also insulated to minimise the passage of sound from
the administrative quarters to the wards. The windows
are of steel construction and of special hospital pattern
throughout.
Internally the buildings are finished with smooth
and dust-free surfaces. The ward floors are finished in
hardwood blocks and the corridor floors in cork tiling,
while the labour rooms, kitchen, bathrooms, sluice rooms,
etc., are paved with terrazzo flooring. The flooring of xhe
bedrooms and principal rooms on the first floor are also
finished in hardwood blocks. The ward walls are
plastered in hard plastei and painted, and in corridors,
bathrooms, sluice rooms, kitchen, etc., the walls are similarly
treated above a terrazzo dado. The walls of the
labour rooms are finished in terrazzo for the full height
of the rooms. The doors throughout are of flush hospital
pattern finished in alder wood and painted.
The buildings are centrally Jieated by means of a
fully automatic oil-fired boiler installation, providing low
pressure hot water to hospital pattern radiators in .ill
looms and corridors. A steam oil-fired boiler is provided
which supplies steam for the sterilising units, together
with a calorifier which supplies constant hot water to all
baths, lavatories, etc. The heating plant is situated in u
heating chamber in a basement under the kitchen.
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