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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
This Hospital is built on a site of nine acres of land situated
in Tottenhall Road, Palmers Green. It is a fine cpen and airy
site admirably adapted for the purpose. Only a portion of the
site is at present occupied by the Hospital premises, the remainder
being let off in allotments. The Hospital premises are entirely
closed by a close boarded fence, and there is one entrance only, in
Tottenhall Road.
The Hospital was opened in January, 1902, and consists of
(1) an administration block for the Staff; (2) a ward block ; (3) an
isolation block ; (4) a laundry block with steam disinfecting
apparatus and mortuary attached ; and (5) an entrance lodge.
The following amounts were sanctioned by the Local Government
Board to be borrowed for the purpose of the Hospital
(1) Purchase of land £2,500
(2) Fencing, draining, etc., of site, and
building entrance lodge 1,600
(3) Erecting Hospital Buildings 8,400
(4) Furniture 600
£13,100
The ward block is used entirely for Scarlet Fever cases, and
consists of two wards, one 36ft. by 26ft. and 13ft in height, for
women and children, and the other 26ft. by 24ft. and 13ft. in
height, for men, with a nurse's duty room between them, arranged
so that the nurse-in-charge can look through a small fixed window
into each ward. The male ward was designed to accommodate
four beds and one cot, and the female ward six beds and one cot.
But the air and floor space allowed was so ample that I find I can
put up two extra beds or cots in each ward and still maintain
sufficient air space. Lavatory and w.c. accommodation are provided
at the ends of each ward, accessible from the ward only, but
provided with a cross ventilation lobby.
The wards are lighted and ventilated by large windows
reaching to the ceiling on each side of the wards, and provided
with fanlights which open inwards. Thorough cross ventilation
is thus obtained. The wards are heated by special stoves in the
centre of each, having downward flues carried under the floors to
external chimney shafts attached to the building.
The floors are of two kinds, that of one ward consisting of
Terazzo, and the other of pitch-pine blocks. The walls are
distempered with Duresco, with a dado of oil paint.