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Enteric—Typhoid Fever.
Two cases of this disease were notified, in both of which the
infection appeared to have been contracted outside the District.
Isolation Hospital.
The Buildings are rapidly nearing completion, and will be ready
for the reception of patients early in 1903.
The site comprises three acres,and is situate on the North side,and
approached by a carriage-way from Mount Pleasant.
The scheme provides for five blocks of buildings, viz: —
Administrative, Mortuary and Laundry, Pavilion, Isolation and
Discharging Blocks, to be built at present with provision for two future
Pavilion Blocks (the foundations of one of these is built), two Isolation
Blocks and Lodge Keeper's Cottage. The present buildings giving
accommodation for 17 beds, and the future blocks adding another
34 beds, giving a possible total accommodation of 51 beds.
The Administrative Block will contain a Matron's Sitting Room,
a Nurse's ditto, a Doctor's Room with Dispensary, Lavatories, Stores,
Kitchen and the usual offices on the Ground Floor. A Matron's
Bedroom and 5 Bedrooms for Nurses on the 1st Floor, and two
Bedrooms for Servants on the Attic Floor.
This building is arranged for future additions as occasions may
arise.
The Mortuary and Laundry Block will contain a Mortuary and
an Ambulance Shed, a Laundry and Washhouse fitted with a Drying
Closet, a disinfecting building with a chamber for infected clothes,
and another for disinfected clothes and fitted with a Dr. Thresh's
apparatus.
The Pavilion Block is arranged for 13 beds, and will consist of
two large Wards each for 6 beds, an Emergency Ward for one bed and
a Nurse's Duty Room arranged between the large wards.
The Isolation Block is arranged for 4 beds in two Wards of 2
beds each, with a Nurse's Duty Room between. On the West side
of this Block a glass verandah will extend the whole length of the
building.
The I )ischnrging Block will contain an Undressing Room and a
Dressing Room with a Bath Room between.