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Telephones.—Between all the different buildings, it will be
found a great convenience, and conducive to economy of time and
labour, to establish a system of telephones.
Coal Bunkers.—I propose that galvanized-iron coal bunkers
should be provided for every block, as movable furniture. They are
far more sanitary than any brick-built enclosures.
MATERIALS FOR BUILDING.
The foundations will be of cement concrete. The walls generally
will be of stock bricks with "shipper" facings, the quoins and dressings
of red brick, with copings of terra-cotta. I recommend that all floors
be constructed of steel and concrete, to render them fire-resisting. I
think all hospitals, of more than one storey, should be so constructed,
and that fire alarms should be fitted throughout.
The inner faces of laundry, mortuary, front of boiler-house, portions
of sanitary annexes, kitchen and scullery, to have white glazed
facings.
The dadoes, where there is heavy traffic, should be of salt-glazed
bricks.
The walls of pavilions should be finished in Keene's or Robinson's
cement, painted and varnished.
The floors of wards should be of polished teak. Floors of sanitary
towers, corridors, covered ways, and similar surfaces, should be of red
Granolithic concrete.
Airing Courts.—These would be laid with tar paving, with
surface drains.
Drainage.—This would be so arranged that the drains of
infectious buildings should be separated from those of the non-infectious
buildings. A system of flushing would be provided, and bath-waste
water would be utilized for that purpose.