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The X-Ray Department will be the waiting hall, where patients panelling. Walls will be finished equipped with apparatus for both will await their turn to go into externally with cement plaster miniature and normal one of the four consulting rooms. and colourwash. Internal walls screening, and will have well- After consultation the patients and ceilings will be lime plaster- equipped dark rooms for develop will proceed to another waiting ed. Floors will be mainly of ing plates, a large file store and room where they will receive pre- asphalt tiles, with the exceptions office, and a room for the radio- scriptions and other forms of as- of those in the Physiotherapy logist. Patients will undress in sistance from the Almoners. A Department and the gymnasium; the room provided, and after be- dispensary, a laboratory, and a the former will be of cork to ing examined in the X-Ray room Health Visitors' room will com- reduce noise and to minimise the will proceed to the dressing room, plete the amenities on this floor. hazard of slipping, while the lat- thus maintaining a steady uni-
The Dental Clinic will occupy
ter will be of teak strips. Rubbed directional flow.
3,500 square feet of the second granolithic dadoes, 4'6" high, will The most important section of floor. It will be equipped with halls and entrances; this type of be provided in the waiting spaces, the new building will undoubted- eight surgeries-four for school
the Tuberculosis Clinic, children, three for adults, and one easily cleaned. Strip lighting will ly be which will occupy the whole of for the special use of the Senior be installed, and benches and the first floor. Patients will first Dental Surgeon. Also included in office equipment will be mainly enter a large waiting room, where this Department will be two wait- they will be divided into two ing rooms, offices, a laboratory supplied from Government Stores. groups one for those who have and a plaster room. The remain- Heating, where necessary, will already been registered, and the der of this floor will be occupied be effected by electric radiators other for those who require regis- by the staff canteen and the wash- The dark room and adjacent film tration. Special precautions will rooms. be taken in this section of the clinic to prevent the possible spread of the disease to office
workers.
A small room for making blood tests will be conveniently located between the registration room and
Since the maximum cross ven; tilation and natural lighting will be required, large windows form the principal feature of the main elevation.
The building will be of reinforc- ed concrete framing, with brick
finish was chosen because it is
drying rooms will be air-condi- tioned from one unit. Three of the dental surgeries will be air- conditioned from units on the roof.
The building was designed by the Architectural Office of the Public Works Department, and the cost is estimated at $750,000.00.
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