Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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On each upper floor is placed a linen and a box room, while the
roof of the centre block, entered from the flat roof, is available for
additional storage.
The W.C., Bath-rooms and Lavatories are all in separate
towers, connected with the main block by means of bridges with
windows on both sides.
The Kitchen Block comprises a receiving room for goods,
with bread and vegetable store right and left, a large kitchen and
scullery, and, close by, larders for fish, raw meat, cooked meat, and
milk, the last with room for scalding cans attached.
The Steward's Stores consist of a lower floor (semibasement),
and a floor on the level of the covered way. In these
stores accommodation for all the necessary goods will be found.
Above the stores is a Residence for a Married Steward,
containing six rooms, scullery, bath-room, and w.c.
The Workshops comprise three rooms : one for the engineer
and his stores, one for painter, the other for carpenter, for the mending
of furniture, &c.
Above is the Male Servants' Residence, comprising living
and serving rooms, scullery, and, in a third storey, four bed-rooms,
bath-room, lavatory, and w.c.
The Laundry is one-storied, containing receiving room, steam
washhouse, drying room, finishing room and delivery room. The
steam plant will consist of two washing machines, a hydro-extractor,
two ironing machines, and a shirt-dresser. The closets will be fitted
with hot-air apparatus, by which quick drying and great freshness
are secured.
The site does not admit of a separate laundry for the staff, except
by placing it above the patients' laundry, in which case less accommodation
on each floor would do.