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Duty Rooms in both Ward and Isolation Pavilions are
centrally arranged so that the nurse-in-charge can look into each
ward through special inspection windows. They contain kitchen
ranges with hot-water apparatus, white glazed sinks, small larders,
kitchen dressers, medicine cupboards, and a telephone communicating
with the administrative block.
The floors are of various kinds, Terrazzo, wood block, and
jointless flooring, the latter having been applied to the wards,
duty and bath-rooms, and sanitary annexes of the new buildings.
The interior walls are plastered with Keene's cement on Portland
cement, and have been coloured with washable distemper and
oil painted dadoes. All internal angles of walls and woodwork
have been coved and rounded.
The Administrative Block contains dispensary, Matron's and
Nurses' sitting-rooms, dining-room, waiting-room for patients'
relatives and friends, store room, kitchen, scullery, coal store,
two bath-rooms, and nineteen bedrooms (two of which contain
two beds each) for the nursing staff' and servants. The building
is so designed that it can readily be enlarged still further to
accommodate an increased staff.
The Laundry Block is fitted with a high-pressure boiler,
which supplies steam for boiling all water required in the Laundry.
A set of clothes-horses on runners are provided in a special
chamber, heated with steam, for drying and airing clothes and
linen when outdoor drying is unavailable. The same boiler also
supplies steam for the steam disinfecting apparatus. Three
separate coach-houses are also provided.
The Entrance Lodge contains a parlour, kitchen-living-room
with enclosed sink and bath, and one bedroom with usual accommodation,
all under one roof and on the ground floor.
The sanitary arrangements of the whole premises are perfect.
Provision is made for thoroughly flushing all the foul-water drains,
and special ventilating shafts have been erected. All refuse is
either burned or disposed of on the enclosed area.