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Sanitary annexes are constructed at the ends of each ward,
accessible from the ward only, and provided with cross
ventilation lobbies.
The Isolation Pavilion is used for Diphtheria, Typhoid
Fever, and doubtful cases which require isolation, and consists of
a double block and containing four wards in all, designed to
contain two beds in each ward and cots for young children.
Each adult patient is provided with 216 square feet of floor
space, and 2,808 cubic feet of air space. Each half of this
pavilion has an independent entrance on opposite sides of the
building, with separate verandahs, and externa! w.c., with special
slop closets.
All wards are lighted by gas and ventilated upon the most
improved principles, so that thorough cross-ventilation may be
well maintained. All wards are heated by regenerating stoves ;
those in the Scarlet Fever Wards being fixed in the centre of each
ward, and having double fires connected to downward flues which
are carried under the floors to ordinary external chimney shafts.
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
jointiess 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.