British medical journal . ooms with a common room, lavatories, water closets,and bath rooms. Opposite this, on the west, are thequarters for sergeants and orderlies. The theatre block, to the north of this, contains atheatre (20 ft. by 16 ft.) with an anaesthetizing room andsterilizing room, while an opposite building contains .r-rayroom, dark room, dispensar3, and pathological are four long ?(^?ards for 24 beds each, two single bed?wards, a nurses room, a pack store with cut-off annexes, abath room and closets on one side and a nurses sink roomon the other. Beyond the wards o
British medical journal . ooms with a common room, lavatories, water closets,and bath rooms. Opposite this, on the west, are thequarters for sergeants and orderlies. The theatre block, to the north of this, contains atheatre (20 ft. by 16 ft.) with an anaesthetizing room andsterilizing room, while an opposite building contains .r-rayroom, dark room, dispensar3, and pathological are four long ?(^?ards for 24 beds each, two single bed?wards, a nurses room, a pack store with cut-off annexes, abath room and closets on one side and a nurses sink roomon the other. Beyond the wards on the west are mess-rooms for thestafl: (male and female), and opposite these, on the east,the kitchen and general stores. Further north still is theresidence of the matron and nurses on the west, and aseparate residence for the maids on the east. At thenorthern extremity is a small laundry for casual use, theintention being that the general laundry work shall bedone elsewhere. There is at the south-east end another. The ?^Velsh IMililavs-Hospital, Xetley.—1. Single-bed -warcls; 2, Sink room : 3, Pack store; 4, Nurse ; 5, Bath?wards for 24 beds. small block containing the ambulance, the mortuary, andpost mortem room, a workshop, and drying-room. The buildings are erected of timber framing covered?with felt and iron outside and lined inside with asbestossheeting which is of pleasing colour. The paintworkthroughout the patients and residential blocks is whiteinternally; the exterior is being painted green. Thofloors generally, except that of the theatre block, are ofwood. The fittings are complete in every respect. Tl:cbuildings are lighted throughout by electricity and theheating and hot-water supplies are by gas. The hospital is designed as a temporary building whichcould be removed if desired to France or elsewhere. Thefurniture and equipment could be packed up at shortnotice. The rooms have been kept as compact as pos-sible, having regard to efficiency and the essentials of
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