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(12) The proximity of the latrines to the kitchen and inaccessibility from the playground
are points in the original plan which appear to require amendment.
(13) The combination of dining room and assembly hall as one room appears impracticable
having regard to the three meals per day to be served to 240 children. We are of
opinion that two classrooms with the intervening verandah could be used as an
assembly hall.
(14) The nurse's room should be dispensed with and the doctor's room used by both.
(15) Cloak room and W.C. accommodation for the domestic staff requires to be provided.
(16) Greater accommodation for kitchen stores is required.
Materials Proposed.
In considering the materials to be used we have asked the Architect to have' every regard
to durability and economy.
(1) Dwarf walls and windows in lieu of roller shutters.—The sides and ends of classrooms,
verandahs, work-shops, massage room and sides of dining hall and ends of cookery
and laundry to have hollow parapet walls 3 feet high, with sash hung windows above
which will lower into the hollow parapet and above these lowering windows glazed
sashes hung on centres to be provided. The inner and outer faces of the lower
framings forming the parapet wall to be faced with rough boarding and covered with
asbestos sheeting. The roof of the above buildings to be supported on steel stanchions.
The walls of administrative block, assistant teacher's room, offices and lodge to be
brick. The external walls to be nine inches thick and rough cast on the outside.
(2) Floors.—All floors to be formed with cement concrete four inches thick and covered
with decolite composition, except the floors of washhouse and heating chambers,
which are to be granolithic.
(3) Roofs.—All roofs to be of wood construction, covered with felt and "poilite"
gated sheeting.
Note.—This sheeting will be cheaper and more weatherproof than poilite
tiles and will admit of the pitch of the roof being reduced and effect a saving in
timber and other materials.
(4) Internal finishings.—The internal walls of administrative block to be faced with glazed
bricks, except the nurse's and teacher's rooms, dining hall and heating chamber.
The ceilings of verandahs or resting sheds to be open to apex of roof and to be formed
with asbestos sheeting in lieu of matchboarding. The ceilings of classrooms, trades
rooms, dining hall, massage, cookery and laundry rooms also to be similar sheeting
in lieu of plaster. All other ceilings to be plastered.
(5) Ventilation.—The verandahs or resting sheds and classrooms to have ventilating
ridges. All other rooms to have ceiling outlets.
(6) Heating.—The cloak rooms, dressing room and corridor of administrative block, dining
hall and massage room to be heated with a hot water apparatus, the nurse's and
teacher's rooms to have open fireplaces.
The east and west ranges of pavilion blocks containing the workshops classrooms
and rest sheds are each to be provided with a hot water apparatus.
(7) Lighting to be by electricity.
(8) Tar paving.-The paths surrounding the buildings and the playground to be tarpaved.
ESTIMATED COSTS.
The foregoing proposals involve the following estimated costs:—
Estimated Capital Charges.
£
(a) Land 8,000
(b) Buildings together with the provision of kitchen, larger stores, &c., massage
and physical exercises room, revised and increased latrine accommodation,
two additional heating chambers and hot water heating of the classrooms,
verandahs, dining hall and massage room and the substitution of small,
hollow parapet walls and windows in lieu of roller shutters 37,000
(c) Furniture and Equipment 4,000
£49,000
If the suggested modifications re materials, as per foregoing statement, is adopted
the saving will be 1,000
Net estimate £48,000