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waiting room for mothers, in which lectures and demonstrations
in knitting and sewing can be given, and a smaller waiting room
upstairs for school children.
The mothers are received in the waiting room. They then
pass to the weighing room, which is also the health visitor's room,
and if the mothers or children have to see the doctor they pass
directly into the doctor's room and finally through the dressing
room to the hall and exit.
All the walls are oil painted. The waiting and clerk's rooms
are painted cream with a light brown dado, the woodwork a dark
oak colour. The other rooms are entirely cream with the woodwork
in oak colour in the school nurse's and health visitor's rooms and
in glossy white in the doctor's and dentist's rooms.
In the hall and landing the floors are laid with polished wood
blocks and in all the other rooms the floors laid with polished
maple in narrow widths with hidden nailing. In the lavatories the
walls, to a height of 7 ft., and the floors are of terazzo with rounded
corners.
Sorbo-rubber treads and risers are fitted on the stairs to lessen
noise from the energetic tramp of the older children going up to
the School Medical Section.
The windows in the rooms on the ground floor have semiopaque
glass on the lower halves so as to avoid the necessity of
curtains. The windows on the first floor, excepting those in the
dentist's and doctor's rooms have clear glass.
The cornices are all simple and rounded and every effort has
been made to avoid corners and to preserve cleanliness.
Warming is effected by a low pressure central heating system
with the boilers in an underground chamber, with supplementary
or emergency gas fires in all rooms. These gas fires are fitted in
tiled overmantels of simple yet pleasing design and upon raised
tiled hearths. The fires should only be necessary in very cold