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Labour Block.
This has two labour wards, an operating theatre, an examination
room (which is fitted so that it can be used as an emergency labour
ward), a sterilising room, a linen room and a receiving room with
bathroom on the north side of the corridor and a duty room and
sluice room facing south on the other side.
Some of the main features of these blocks are the following:—
The floors of the wards in the Ward and Isolation Blocks are
in natural waxed strip oak throughout, the floors of the corridors
are cork-tiled and the sluice and sterilising rooms are finished in
terrazzo.
Throughout the Labour Block all floors and dados are finished
in light green terrazzo.
All doors are solid flush oak, veneered, with chromium plated
easy-clean fittings.
All windows are of heavy section metal, those in the six-bedded
wards and in the single-bedded wards on the first floor being of
the sliding-folding type.
In the Ward and Labour Blocks a silent signal (light) system
has been installed by means of which patients can call a nurse
without the noise of bells.
The lift between the two floors facilitates the movement of
patients and stores.
A modern Scialytic shadowless light is installed in the Operating
Theatre and a "Keepalite" emergency lighting system, which
automatically provides sufficient light should the main electricity
current fail is fitted in the operating theatre and labour wards.
The lighting fittings throughout the blocks are of a special
modern type. There is an electric light over each bed and there
are dimmed night lights in the large wards and in the corridors.
Modern tubular metal furniture has been provided for the
Labour Block and plain waxed oak furniture in the Ward Block.
All bedsteads are of tubular steel finished in "Olasto" aluminium.
Bassinet cots are provided for the babies and these can be readily
wheeled to and from the nurseries and the wards.