Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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stock bricks with flush joints of yellow mortar.
Sills are in artificial stone of Portland stone colour, and
lintels and canopies are in reinforced concrete finished fair-face
and treated with a cream cement resisting paint lightly stippled.
The piers supporting the two semi-circular canopies are faced
with tiles of sunshine yellow with a turquoise blue base and
capping.
All windows and doors to General Waiting Room and
corridor are of metal. Other external doors are in wood, and
windows, doors and ironwork externally are painted turquoise
blue.
Internal Finishes.
The entrance to the School Clinic has a tiled floor and dado,
and the Juvenile Employment entrance has also a tiled floor
and skirting with cement rendered walls above distempered
cream.
Waiting Rooms and corridors have floors of "Ruboleum"
with coved tiled skirtings and dadoes and cream enamelled
plaster walls above.
The Dental Surgery consulting room and rooms to clinics
generally have wood block floors in beech and pyinkado with
coved tiled skirting and cream enamelled plaster walls.
The Toddlers' room has a "Latex" rubber floor, tiled
skirting, spring green rexine leather dado, with nursery rhyme
frieze and primrose enamelled plaster above.
Lavatories and kitchen to the Maternity Clinic have tiled
floors and dadoes with cream enamelled plaster above.
Tiles have been fixed to walls around all basins, sinks and
fittings generally, and all fittings follow the best hospital
practice.
Window sills throughout are of tile with rounded nosings.
All rooms to clinics have rounded internal and external
angles.
The Juvenile Employment Bureau has a "Ruboleum"
floor to the public portion and wood block to the clerks' office.
Walls are cement rendered and distempered cream. Woodwork
is in dove grey.
The counter to the Juvenile Employment Bureau and the
School Clerk's office has a flush plywood front and solid top in
Australian silky oak.