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The south elevation and a typical floor plan of the Victoria Nurses' Home, Shanghai

The first floor is the principal floor, approached by a flight of wide steps, leading up to the main entrance and to the lounge hall, from which corridors running east and west give access to the sisters' common rooms, dining room, library, tea room, etc., all of which overlook the garden.

The upper floors are identical and provide accommo- dation for the nursing staff in individual bedrooms with a common verandah overlooking the gardens and facing south. The east end of each floor is occupied by a small flat for the matrons and home sister, each flat consisting of a living room, bedroom, tiled bathroom, boxroom, and private verandah. The west end has a two-roomed apart- ment for senior sisters. All bedrooms are equipped with built-in wardrobes. The top floor provides several bed- rooms slightly smaller in size for probationers and also a sleeping porch and a roof garden. The building accommodates almost 100 nurses and probationers.

The Secondary School for Chinese Girls at Shanghai is partly a solid brick building and partly a concrete- framed structure faced externally with facing tiles and cement rendering. Twenty-two classrooms, all facing south accommodate 500 pupils. In addition there are fully equipped classrooms for needlework, physics, and chemis- try, a cookery classroom on the top floor, and next to it the kitchen, which serves the dining room below. A large gymnasium on the ground floor can be easily con- verted into an assembly hall with a stage and a cinema operator's room opposite.

Borrowed lights are arranged between classrooms and special attention has been paid to a good ventilation system; corridors create a through draught, maintaining a pleasant temperature even in hot and damp summer days. Small cloakrooms are attached to each individual class-room since the former system of hanging clothes along the corridor walls has not proved satisfactory in Chinese schools. A roof garden and a large play-ground