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nurses can wash and iron any special articles of apparel they
wish to do themselves. All the new bedrooms have been equipped
with washhand basins and with hot water radiators and the furnishing
is such as to make the room comfortable for use as a bedroom
and as a private sitting room. The doors are solid flush laminated
with oak facing. The flooring on the ground floor and in the
bedrooms is of oak and cork flooring is laid on the bedroom
corridors for quietness.
The main staircase is constructed of reinforced concrete faced
with terrazzo, with wrought iron balustrading and bronze handrail.
The lighting fittings throughout are of a type specially suitable
for hospital use.
All the decorations have been carried out in quiet and
unobtrusive yet pleasant colouring with the furniture and woodwork
in natural waxed oak.
Cubicle Block.—This consists of twelve single-bed rooms or
cubicles for patients, six on each side of the duty room, arranged
along a corridor with observation windows in the duty room and
along the corridor which enable the nursing staff to keep the
patients under continuous observation. The sluice room is in the
centre of the building and bathrooms and lavatories are at either
end. Casement doors lead from each cubicle on the south side
to a paved area so that the beds can be wheeled out if weather
conditions permit. The windows are of metal, sliding and folding,
opening to 100 per cent.
The flooring throughout the Block is in natural waxed oak
with the exception of the sanitary section which is in terrazzo.
The wooden furniture is also in waxed natural oak and all doors
are solid-flush-laminated oak faced.
Each cubicle has a small table, a bedside locker and a chair
upholstered in rexine with a Dunlopillo cushion seat.
The lighting fittings throughout are, as in the Administrative
Block, of a special modern type. There is a lighting fitting over
each bed and there are dimmed night-lights in the corridors.