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I am instructed that it is intended to use these not only for the
Hospital but for the general public. It will be noted that provision
is made for this, gates in the yard wall giving entrance from the road.
On the North-east of the yard are placed
The Stable Buildings, with accommodation for four
horses and three vans, with two grooms' rooms over. Lastly, we come
to the
Mortuary and Dead Viewing Room, on the extreme
South-east of the yard next the road. The mortuary provides for six
biers. In placing it in this position, I have desired to make it as
inconspicuous as possible, and so that hearses may come and go
without being visible to patients. I think, too, that the viewing
room adjoining keeps mourning visitors away from the general
hospital. They can be admitted immediately to view their dead and
at once can leave the hospital premises.
It is right to point out the necessity for a man as trustworthy as
the gate-keeper to take charge of the yard gates. These are shown
to be necessary for the public use of the disinfector, for the ambulance
vans, for hearses, coals and materials carts, but there must be rigid
control to prevent abuse of " the back way."
The Dispensary is placed in a central position, as open as
possible to the air, with a waiting and examination-rooms for staff
attached, the latter available as a night-superintendent's room.
It is right to point out that I should much have preferred a
larger site to give more space about the general administrative
buildings, but the area being fixed, I have endeavoured so to utilize
it as to give a maximum of light and air, while, having regard to the
fact that so many one-storied buildings exist, there is no crowding of
people on a small area.
Covered-ways and Subways.—I have already referred
to covered-ways between all parts of the Hospital. These are intended
to be open arcades of brickwork, with flat roofs of steel and concrete.