STANTON HOUSE
Photographs by Staff Photographer.
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A view of the recently completed building on Lower Albert Road.
The building is shaped like an arrowhead with one wing longer than the other. The hall, lift and staircase are placed in the centre of the building at the meeting of point and haft, with the ground floor waiting room in the point of the arrow immediately above the entrance way. In the left wing of this floor are placed the five offices, whilst in the right wing are the first group of eight single rooms for private patients. Every room is equipped with handbasin. The staff dining-room and the kitchen where food for both staff and patients are prepared are situated in the haft of the arrow and complete the amenities on this floor.
In a mezzanine floor just below the true ground floor level are situated the mortuary, the outdoor patients wait- ing room, the dispensary and three more offices. The boiler room for supplying steam and hot water for the hospital patients is also situated on this level.
The first floor is divided into another twelve single rooms, one of which has its own private bathroom, two staff bedrooms with lavatories and showers, the pantry where food brought up from the kitchen is prepared for the patients, and the floor duty room with linen cupboards attached, in the point of the building.
The second, third and fourth floors are identical and similar to the first floor except that there are no rooms with private bath, and thirteen single rooms have been provided for.
On the top floor, the fifth story, is located the major operation room, the minor operation room, the labour room, all on the front of the left wing, with sterilizing room,
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Typical floor plan, showing shape of the building and division of rooms.
doctors' scrub room and bathroom directly opposite on the other side of the central corridor which divides each floor and each wing. Four single rooms and three double rooms, each designed to accommodate two patients are located in the right wing with the usual duty room, hall, lift stair- case, pantry and staff accommodation with which each of the lower floors were provided.
Owing to the ground configuration the ground floor of the building is at 126,97 level, although Lower Albert Road on which the building fronts is 20'0" lower down at the 106.97 level. This enabled the architect to design a very imposing entrance with high ceiling, and also to interpose a lower service mezzanine below the ground floor. On the entrance hall level, the architect has also managed to provide considerable storage space, a feature which must be of immense value to a hospital.
All front rooms have access to a front balcony which, although not very wide, offers welcome opportunity to convalescent patients to take their ease outdoors. These narrow balconies provide the horizontal elements in the design of the building.
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Stanton House has a cubic content of 391,000 cu.ft. and cost $900,000.00 to build. The building cost therefore works out to $2.30 per cu.ft. including site formation and drainage outside the building. The 120 rooms cover about
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