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Remarks. The general surroundings of the Hospital are insalubrious
as the Committee are aware, and further comment
on my part as to this point is needless.
Most of the woodwork is affected by dry-rot (the
smell of which is noticeable in every room). The whole
building is in a very dilapidated state, the roofs are
leaky and rain water finds an entrance at many places.
The Hospital fails in ever}' way to come up to what
is required in a habitable building.
1.—The site is very wet.
2.—The construction does not insure perfect
dryness of the roofs, walls, and foundations.
3.—The system of drainage is unsatisfactory.
4.-—The ventilation is imperfect.
I consider the building to be quite beyond repair and
think that any expenditure on it would be money
wasted.
I suggest that the Hospital be closed, and Patients
treated in the Iron Hospital until some further proper
accommodation is provided. A house could be rented
for the nursing staff in the Gap Road, at a small cost,
and the present Hospital furniture could be used for it.
I may add that knowing now the insanitary condition
of the Hospital, I should, as the Sanitary Inspector for the
District, have great hesitation in advising parents to send
their children into it, for the Sanitary condition of thenown
homes could scarcely in any case be worse than that
of the Hospital.
I produce a bottle of the sewage taken from the
cesspool in the cellar.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN W. MAYNE.