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Tottenham 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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The Light Treatment Room.
The Light Treatment Room will be fitted with one central
"Centrosal" lamp and four pendant type "Sollux" Radiant Heat Lamps
for collective irradiation therapy treatment, and the floor is marked
with two circles 4ft. and 5ft. diameter which will form a uniform
treatment zone.
Patients will form themselves around the treatment zone, either
standing or sitting, whichever is preferred, and the irradiation time
will be, approximately, four minutes to each side of the body.
The Day Nursery.
The new Day Nursery will occupy the whole of the West Wing of the
Park Lane Clinic, and will incorporate:—
1. Two nurseries, one for infants and one for young children.
2. Suitable provision for receiving and bathing the children
and for keeping their clothes.
3. Kitchen and Larder.
4. A Milk Larder and safe and place for preparation of bottles.
5. Proper sanitary arrangements for the children.
6. Adequate provision for daily laundry and keeping soiled
garments.
7. Accommodation for the Staff, including Matron's room,
and Staff dining and rest rooms.
8. Medical inspection and Committee room.
9. Ventilock windows in Burma Teak will cover almost the
whole of the walls on two sides of each playroom enabling
these rooms to be open entirely to the air and immediately
over these windows will be clerestory windows glazed in
"Vita" plate glass. "Glascrete" canopies 5ft. wide will
surround the playrooms affording protection from inclement
weather.
10. The playrooms will be surrounded externally with ' 'Noclite"
non-slip paving of buff colour.