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PARTICULARS OF THE NEW HOSPITAL.
For some years the Maternity Hospital at Clayponds Lane
has been quite incapable of meeting the needs of the two Boroughs,
and the entirely new Hospital which has been opened at Perivale
has been the result of the determination of the two Councils to
meet the ever increasing demand for accommodation for maternity
cases. The old maternity hospital has been added to the Isolation
Hospital to extend its accommodation.
The new Hospital consists of a two-storey Ward Block of
40 beds with a separate Labour Block connected with the main
Block by means of a corridor, an Isolation Block of three beds,
an Administrative Block, a Laundry and Engineering Block, a
Mortuary and a Lodge.
Whilst the main entrance to the grounds of the Hospital is
from Western Avenue, on the north, the main entrance and the
front of the buildings face the opposite side and thus all the wards
and most of the rooms in the Administrative Block have a south
aspect.
The design generally is in the modern functional style and
the external walls are faced with "Keymer" hand-made sand-faced
bricks.
Ward Block.
This is a two-storied building with each floor similar in plan
Each floor is composed of two units each consisting of a 6-bedded
ward at the end of the corridor with four single-bed wards arranged
alongside it with a central nursery for babies serving two units.
Observation windows in the doors in the corridor enable the nursing
staff to keep the patients under continuous observation. All the
wards are on the south side of the building and those on the ground
floor have casement doors so that the beds can be wheeled out
into the open on to a paved area if the weather permits. On the
north side of the corridor are the various sluice rooms, bathrooms,
duty rooms and sterilising rooms. A closed corridor runs from the
centre of the north side to the Labour Block.