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been contracted for at the sum of £21,733, and it is hoped that
the new buildings will be ready for use towards the latter end of
1924.
It will be remembered that the original suggestion to the
Ministry of Health was that an additional ward of 27 beds should
be built over Block I. After inspection of the hospital by an
architect and a medical officer to the Ministry, the Ministry of
Health finally recommended that the present nurses' home over
Block V should be converted into a ward of the above capacity,
and that the convalescent home, which for some years has been
used as sleeping accommodation for the night nurses, should be
altered and form part of a new nurses' home.