CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 566

}

large dayroom, with four sleeping chambers leading into it, flanked

on the left hand side by the Subrance: hall and Staircase, and on the right by the wardmaster's and matron's living trooms respectively, and by a small dining room for the patients. The sleeping chambers will be 8ft. by 10ft. by 14ft, and contain 1120 cubic feet

per bed; such chamber will have a window 3ft: G'inches wide by 4ft: &inches long, the height of t

window sill to be speet

above floor level. In Each compartment

A

ventilating plue binches by 3 inches

" will be brought in through the External wall for the admission of the outer air al-a

height of Sin feet above floor level this:

with

conding foul air outlet

580

immediately beneath the ceiling. The par

tition walls.

of the compartments

shewa

Extra thickness to deaden sound. With the

Zame

object

Each chamber will have a double

door which will be provided with a diding

Hulle

- for inspection purposes. The floors of

the rooms throughout the house will be of test oiled and polished. All internal wall surfaces

and be rendered in Portland Cement and

bepainted of various shades of light grey on blue, and it will be specially sought to

on sach floor

make the day-room attractive and Cheerful

A

by inexpensive mural decorations. This room which will be 41 feet long by 16. feet wide will become practically a broad verandah during the summer months when all the windows will be kept open through

- day and night. During the

the

The