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the staff by the extension of the Administrative Buildings. The
plans make provision not only for the present requirements, but
also for any extra staff which may be required for four additional
Pavilions, for the accommodation of patients, and which could be
erected on the Hospital site without overcrowding. The plans
provide for (a) Extra sleeping accomodation and bath rooms;
(b) Additional mess room accommodation ; (c) Sitting rooms ;
and (d) A general recreation room—at a cost approximately estimated
at the sum of £8000.
EASTERN HOSPITAL.
Additional accommodation for the staff, and other structural
alterations with a view to centralising and economising the administration,
are about to be provided, at an estimated cost of
about £5500.
WESTERN FEVER HOSPITAL, FULHAM.
In 1888 the Asylums Board had under consideration a
memorandum prepared by the Committee for the Western
Hospital, respecting the necessity of providing further accommodation
for fever patients at this Hospital—a course which involves
the acquisition of additional land, as no more accommodation can
be provided on the existing site. The hospital contains at present
only 262 beds, and the experience gained during the prevalence
of scarlatina in 1887 shews that it is not large enough to receive
all the cases arising in the district allocated to it, inasmuch as,
after the Hospital was filled, cases to the number of 355, that
should have been admitted, had to be taken to other Hospitals—
a course which necessarily occasioned great loss of time and
waste of labour, as well as an increased expense to the Ambulance
Department. The administration of the hospital is very
expensive pro rata with the number of patients: the present
staff, with a few additional nurses and other subordinate officers,
would be sufficient for a Hospital twice the size. Therefore, and