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A new Maternity Block—this will be a two storey building
to contain 40 beds. This is considered to be an urgent matter as
the existing maternity block is inadequate in accommodation and
obsolete in arrangement and structural equipment.
The present maternity block will be adapted to form a gynæcological
block. By this arrangement the maternity block and the
gynaecological block would be contiguous and would form one
obstetrical unit. This block, which will contain twenty beds, will
free one of the wards now used for gynaecological cases, for general
medical or surgical purposes.
A one storey pavilion block for infants and young children, on
lines similar to those of the two now existing. This block will
be the same size as the existing blocks, namely 20 beds. The three
blocks will then form a subsidiary children's hospital of sixty beds.
The erection of this block will enable the Observation Nursery in
Lodge Road to be discontinued. On account of its small size this
institution is costly to maintain. The premises it now occupies
could be utilised for the purpose of child welfare and school clinics
for which more commodious accommodation is very urgently
required.
A new receiving ward block at the Hospital Main entrance in
Bridge Road. This block will contain ten single bedded cubicle
wards, five for males and five for females, with a doctor's room,
nurses duty room, store room and the necessary sanitary arrangements.
At present there is no proper receiving block and its provision
is of importance, more especially in preventing outbreaks
of infectious disease in the Hospital, and for the better allocation of
patients to various wards.
The present Receiving Block will be converted into a special
departments block and will be enlarged. In any general hospital
the provision of modern X-Ray plant for diagnostic and therapeutic
purposes; clinical laboratory facilities; orthopaedic, dental, ophthalmic,
massage, diathermy and remedial departments is essential.
The facilities which exist are quite inadequate.
An Observation Block for acute mental cases, of sixteen beds.
Each of the ten existing day rooms will be converted into a
four bedded and a one bedded ward with bath room and sink room
accommodation, and provision of day room recesses to existing
wards will be provided.