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&c.; one block for sick nurses; one block for nurses on duty
in isolation blocks ; one nurses' dressing block; one porter's
lodge and discharge room; two receiving rooms; one
patients' own clothes store, (fitted with racks consisting of
500 numbered bins); one mortuary, (which includes friends'
room and post-mortem room); one house coal store ; one
meter house; and one tank house ; making fifty buildings,
all of which are warmed by steam-pipes or radiators worked
by the central boilers, which also supply steam to the kitchen
and laundry and to the bath water-heaters. The original
site of fifteen acres acquired at a cost of £12,400, has been
extended by the purchase or rental of adjoining properties,
and the site now exceeds nineteen acres. It is bounded on
the north by St. Ann's Road, from which it is separated by a
wall, without any opening, 800 feet in length. A seven-foot
fence encloses the site on the remaining three sides. The
South Tottenham Railway embankment constitutes the
southern boundary. The western boundary is a large house
and grounds (Mayfield House), additional to the original site,
at present rented, with option of purchase by the Managers.
The eastern boundary, where the entrance has been formed,
comprises land and houses abutting on Hermitage Road, all
the properties in which, on the hospital side, excepting a
police station, have been acquired by the Managers. The
site is thus seen to be well isolated, and, as there are few
houses in the vicinity, the reason for the refusal of the Local
Government Board to its purchase, in 1891, is not apparent.
The Hospital has been of the greatest utility.
STATISTICAL TABLE.
Reference to the work of the Asylums Board in 1892,
may be fitly concluded by the following Table, showing the
number of cases admitted to the Managers' Hospitals from
the several Parishes and Unions which, it will be understood,
are not conterminous with the sanitary districts:—