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Cupboards are close fitted to walls, and doors to all Clinics
and Juvenile Employment Bureau are finished flush.
Door furniture is stainless steel or satin chrome.
The caretaker's quarters are finished with wood floors and
plaster walls, the bathroom and kitchen only having tiled floors.
Simple colour schemes are used throughout.
Services.
Heating is by low pressure hot water from a boiler situated
in the basement and feeding hospital type radiators in the
various rooms as required. The General Waiting Room is also
fitted with four ray radiators high up under the clerestory
windows to provide additional heating surfaces. The heating
system is pump accelerated.
Hot water for the various fittings and for domestic services
generally is supplied from a separate boiler in the basement.
Main supply pipes are carried in accessible ducts throughout
the building to the various points, and wherever possible
pipes are concealed. All exposed pipes and fittings throughout
are chromium plated.
The clinics have a private intercommunication system of
telephones, and the patients' call system is by combined light
signs and buzzers.
Generally.
The completion and opening of this building forms part of
a scheme of educational development in Brentford undertaken
during the past ten years by the Joint Committee for Education.
The building scheme has been carried out by the Borough
Engineer and Surveyor in collaboration with the Medical Officer
of Health and the Director of Education, and the drawings and
details have been prepared by Mr. K. P. Goble, Architectural
Assistant in the Borough Surveyor's Department. The Clerk
of Works was Mr. W. Burns."
The tender accepted was for £14,045.
I beg to express my gratitude to the Staff of the School
Medical Service for their efforts to render this service efficient,
also my thanks to the Teaching Staff of the schools for their
most valuable co-operation and to the Director of Education
and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Education Committee
for their help and courtesy.
Your obedient Servant,
R. C. LEANING,
School Medical Officer.