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Honeypot Lane Hospital.
Date of erection—1902.
Site—3.2 acres. Adjoining land not yet built on.
Water supply—Colne Valley Water Company.
Sewage disposal—water carriage to sewage farm.
Heating—slow combustion stoves. Electric fires available.
Artificial lighting—electric light.
Construction of building—brick with slate roofs.
Number of blocks—two.
Number of wards—five.
Number of beds on the basis of 144 square feet per patient—17.
Accommodation for staff—matron, four nurses, two maids and the
cook in the house. Porter and laundress in porter's lodge
(one nurse sleeps in the discharge ward).
Laundry—electric power.
Disinfecting apparatus—Washington Lyon Steam Disinfector.
Ambulance—an Austin ambulance; and Morris van for conveyance
of bedding.
Medical attendants—Medical Superintendent, the late Dr. Leslie
Romer.
The present arrangements are unsatisfactory for a number of
reasons, the chief being that the accommodation is insufficient.
Arrangements have been made with other local authorities for the
admission to their institutions of cases for whom accommodation
is not available.
To minimise existing disadvantages and improve conditions
for as long as these two buildings continue to be used, a number
of changes have been or are to be made:—
(1) Both institutions are to be run as one unit, acute cases
being admitted to the Rayners Lane Hospital, from which convalescent
scarlet fever cases will be transferred to the Honeypot
Lane Hospital.
(2) All laundry work to be done at the Stanmore Hospital,
where there is electric power, obviating the hand laundering which
was done at the Harrow Hospital. To cope with the additional
work, changes have been made at the Stanmore laundry to reduce
hand labour and a water-softener installed.
(3) The conversion of the laundry block at the Harrow
Hospital into cubicles to house a number of nursing and domestic
staff, obviating the previous practice by which some members
of the staff had to sleep out.