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Administrative Block.
The Administrative Block consists of three floors, the second
and third providing the bedroom accommodation for the staff,
a lecture room, a sewing room, a staff ironing room and the linen
stores.
Each of the thirty-six bedrooms is equipped with a washhand
basin and with a hot water radiator and the furnishing is such as
to make the room comfortable for use as a bedroom and as a private
sitting-room. Ample lavatory accommodation has been provided
for nurses and maids and there is an ironing room in which nurses
can wash and iron any special articles of apparel they wish to do
themselves. Shampoo fittings are provided in the lavatories on
each floor.
On the ground floor are the suites of rooms for the Resident
Medical Officer and the Matron, sitting rooms for sisters, nurses
and maids, a large staff dining room which can also be used as a
recreation room and a large and well equipped kitchen, with storerooms
and refrigerator. On either side of the entrance is an office,
one for the Medical Officer and the other for the Matron. A small
telephone room is available for the use of the staff.
The doors throughout are flush oak, veneered, the flooring of
the rooms is of oak in strips, the corridors are laid with cork, the
bathrooms with terrazzo and the kitchens with quarry tiles.
All the decorations have been carried out in quiet and unobtrusive,
yet pleasant, colouring with the furniture and woodwork
in natural waxed oak.
The central heating, the domestic hot water and the laundry
are supplied by two of the latest "Economic" type boilers,
complete with steam turbine pumps in duplicate, and calorifiers.
A water softening plant has also been provided.
The hospital has been so constructed that another twenty-four
beds for patients and twenty bedrooms for staff can be added at a
comparatively low cost, the present kitchen and engineering services
being sufficient for the enlarged hospital.