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HOSPITALS.
(a) Provided by Local Authority.
New Pavilion—Harts Sanatorium.
The need for additional and more suitable accommodation for
observation and advanced cases at Harts Sanatorium has long; been
advocated by the Council and it is a matter for congratulation that
completion of the new permanent brick building was effected before
the end of the year. The transference of many patients suffering
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Public Assistance Hospitals was
indicated in the Local Government Act 1929. The Council was
anxious to comply with these requirements and by so doing afford
direct facilities for treatment, and relieve Public Assistance
Hospitals of this responsibility.
With this provision the number of beds at Harts is increased
from fifty-six to eighty.
The building was opened by The Worshipful the Mayor
(Alderman G. H. Manser, J.P.) on 28th October, accompanied by
the Mayoress, the Chairman of the Public Health Committee
(Alderman E. F. Markey) and members of the Council. Dr.
Benton described the history of the Tuberculosis Scheme since its
inception.
The building was erected by direct labour under the supervision
of the Borough Engineer (Mr. A. T. Bridgewater, F.S.I.)
and the Chairman of the Works Committee (Alderman C. W.
Brading, J.P.).
The pavilion consists of male and female sections separated
from one another by a duty-room and ward-kitchen. The female
side has a ward containing eight beds, 4 two-bedded, and 4 onebedded
cubicles whilst the male side consists of 4 two-bedded, and
4 one-bedded cubicles. Each part has bathrooms, lavatories, linenrooms,
drying-room, locker-room, day-room, etc. The whole is
centrally heated from a boiler-room situated below ground in the
rear of the ward kitchen. Above the boiler-room are the X-ray and
dark-rooms, both built in accordance with the recommendations of
the National Physical Laboratory.
Extending along the front of the whole of the cubicles, both
male and female is a covered verandah, 9 feet wide, with two large