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A lift has been installed to enable patients to be conveyed
direct to the first floor.
The Operating Theatre is heated by ceiling and wall panels
and is provided with an "Ideal" K.B.B. shadowless lamp. The
floor is laid in 12in. Terrazzo tiles and the walls finished in Keene's
plaster, white enamelled.
The sterilizing equipment consists of a crockery sterilizer in
the Duty Room, a dressings sterilizer, a combined bowl and instrument
and hot and cold water sterilizer in the Sterilizer Room.
The whole equipment works under steam pressure and is the latest
of its type, all fittings being chromium plated or of stainless steel.
A bed pan washer is installed in the Sink Room.
The cubicles are heated by radiators, and a surgeon's basin
is fitted in each. Oak block flooring is laid in the cubicles, the
doors of which are flush and contain observation panels.
The flooring in the corridors is in Terrazzo, and the first floor
corridor gives access to a fire-escape staircase.
Ventilation is by means of a powerful electric fan connected
by a system of ducts to openings in the ceilings of the various
wards, etc.
(c) New Ward Block :—Brick built and situated on the east side
and in alignment with the Old Ward Block, will eventually accommodate
27 patients, but the present scheme includes the construction
of the ground floor storey only, with the following accommodation:—
Two four-bed wards, three two-bed wards and two single-
bed wards (sixteen beds), all with access to a verandah in front.
Reception Ward, with waiting room, bathroom and W.C.
Labour Room, Sterilizer Room, Sink Room, Babies'
Room, Duty Room, Kitchen, etc. : bathrooms and lavatory
accommodation.