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There are 2 steam boilers, with automatic chain coal feed, one
acting as a standby, with provision for a third should this be
necessary. Each boiler has a capacity of approximately 7,500 lbs.
of steam per hour, which serves the heating and hot water supply
for the Institution, also for sterilising and disinfection purposes.
Heating is by low pressure hot water, the heat being produced in
steam-heated calorifiers and circulated by turbine driven pumps
through underground mains.
The plant is designed for economical running: all exhaust
steam being utilised, either in the heating and hot water supply
calorifiers or for heating the boiler feed water, and the condensate
from the calorifiers, and as much as possible from the Laundry, is
returned to the hot well and pumped back to the boilers.
The Water Tower is a reinforced concrete structure with a
storage tank at the top for holding 12,000 gallons. Below is one
storey containing two auxiliary tanks, and on the first floor is the
water softening plant and storage for salt. On the ground floor is
installed a transformer sub-station. One meter deals with the
whole of the electric supply (A.C.) to the Hospital.
(d) Nurses' Home.—The extensions to this block have provided
41 new bedrooms, enlarged dining room, sitting rooms and a lecture
room (32ft. x 16ft.). The elevations were designed to match the
original home. The corridors are laid in Rhodesian block flooring
and the bedroom floors are of Jarrah in narrow boards. The bathroom,
lavatories and slop rooms have tiled walls with Terrazzo
floors, the fittings being chromium plated.
Each bedroom is provided with a hand basin, with hot and cold
water, and a hot water radiator.
(e) Resident Medical Officer's House.—Erected in corner of Hospital
grounds, contains lounge hall, 2 reception rooms, 4 bedrooms,
kitchen and usual offices.
(/) Generally.-—The new buildings and grounds occupy 2¾ acres.
The Isolation Hospital now provides accommodation for 170 patients
(20 being cases of T.B.).