Summarised by hoping that the preferred Hospital is a good example of prudent construction: the object in a true pavilion Hospital is to isolate the pavilions by securing the free circulation of air. And, with this object, the projections from the face of the ward walls should be as few and as insignificant as possible, the space between the wards should be absolutely free of buildings and the communicating corridors should be of the most open construction which the climate will allow. These principles do not appear to have been kept very rigidly in view in the plans under consideration.
The two wards in the centre front, being formed (Lee fromed Flon Nau and section 418) are in no sense pavilion wards, for the corridor is largely blocked up on its south side by this floor and the wards are hemmed in by walls of cul-de-sac courts and are moreover effectively shielded by bathing establishments behind them from the prevailing wind during the hottest time of the year.
The middle floor plan shows a corridor with very insufficient openings, further impeded by the roofs of the kitchen and laboratory and by the projection of the staircase and its annexes.
It is only on the upper floor that the Hospital assumes somewhat of the true pavilion character. The selection of a position for the kitchen and for the laboratory cannot be considered satisfactory: apart from...
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