CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12] — Page 46

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the same

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· prinsiple Terming's closet, and nearly at the floor_ level, a second one siphon trapped and... lead lined with brass grating useful for emptying portable baths and large volumes of waste water. When not in use the sinks will be covered with teak

lids hinged and capable of being fastened

: back to the wall.

In the front verandah it is proposed to utilize the present little empty room of the first floor, and to repeat it on the second floor for holding a press for the

small cupboard

days

linen and also a

and also a small

with shelves for the Ward crookhery and

medicines.

The present gas

service

pipes will be

extended to the new

portions of the building,

but the present class of burner will be substituted in the wards by central. pendants so arranged as to ensure the "direct removal of all products of. combustion by bringing down the pipe

from the ceiling concentrically within a larger tube which suspends the ventilating glass globe and which will connect with terra cotta tubing led out to the open-air. Bells and speaking tubes with signal whistles for

communication between the

wards and Administration offices will

be fixed wherever n

necessary.

The water supply will remain as at present, a constant one from Hospital

Tank on Caine Road, built some

years ago

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