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Mooring Stations designated under Article 10:—
(a) Within the Docks ; (b) Outside the Docks.
These remain as reported in 1933. There has, so far, been no occasion to make
use of them.
Particulars of any standing Exemptions from the Provisions of
Article 14.-—None have been made, and the arrangements described in my 1933
Eeport have worked smoothly.
Experience of working Article 16:—
(1) As ships are cleared in the River immediately on arrival, no difficulty has
been experienced in preventing the embarkation or disembarkation of unauthorised
persons.
(2) The arrangements for the surveillance of contacts have been facilitated by
the use of the " Business Reply Card " system, described in my Report for the
year 1933.
What Arrangements have been made for:—
(a) Premises and waiting rooms for medical examination.
(b) Cleansing and disinfection of ships, persons and clothing and other articles.
(c) Premises for the temporary accommodation of persons for whom such
accommodation is required for the purposes of the Regulations.
As regards (a), (b) and (c), the arrangements remain as described in my Report
for the year 1933.
(id) Hospital accommodation available for Plague, Cholera, Yellow Fever,
Small-pox and other infectious diseases.
The Cubicle Ward Block opened at the end of 1934, and described in my last
Annual Report, has proved exceedingly useful. Most of the cases admitted have
been nursed in the cubicles ; there have been no cross-infections and no difficulties of
any kind.
The Hospital was further improved during the year by the rebuilding of the Nurses'
Home, the provision of a new laundry, a small sewage disposal plant, a gardener's
store, a new incinerator, and by the raising of the level of the ground over about
a quarter of the site. On 23rd November your Chairman opened the new Buildings,
the following brief description of which was printed in the programme of the day's
proceedings:—
THE NEW HOSPITAL BUILDINGS.
Nurses' Home.
The original Nurses' Home, built in 1883, comprised -only four rooms on the ground floor and four on
the first floor. There were also two bedrooms for maids in the Centre Ward Block.
At a later date a single storey annexe was built on to the Nurses' Home, providing four additional
bedrooms and the smallest and oldest ward was taken over for the maids.
This was an unsatisfactory and uncomfortable arrangement, and it was decided to bring all the stafl
together in one building connected by a covered corridor to the new cubicle ward block in which most
of the nursing is done.
The single storey annexe and the old ward block were demolished and the original Nurses' Home has
been extended on two floors in a westerly direction.
The new building comprises:—
On the Ground Floor—Medical Officer's office, Matron's office, linen and general store-rooms,
cloak-room, small waiting-room, Nurses' rest-room, Nurses' dining-room, Maid's rest-room,
Maid's dining-room, kitchen, boiler house and water-softening plant.
On the First Floor—Matron's bedroom and sitting-room, nine bedrooms for Nurses and Maids,
bathrooms, &c.