No_4_1955 — Page 9

We have already a solid foundation in

The new Hospital will be built to the entirety. It will be particularly noted The main entrance hall and passage standards of the Board of Control in that the buildings are placed in relation- way with a kitchen on one side and the Great Britain, and will be a modern men- ship to each other, so as to form practical- patients lavatory on the other side are tal hospital with full facilities for all the ly enclosed quadrangles where the pa- placed at the base of the main central latest medical and surgical treatments, tients will have facilities for recreation section, whilst a large patients washroom occupational therapy and recreational ac- and exercise without being overlooked, interconnected with bathroom and sluice tivities.

and where they will be under easy supervi- room and additional lavatory accommoda- sion by their attendants.

tion is situated at the opposite end. Store rooms, clean linen rooms, boiler rooms, psychiatric work based on the present

In order to give immediate relief to the are strategically distributed throughout Mental Hospital. It cannot be said that. present Mental Hospital on High Street the floor, except from the quantitative aspects (e.g., where, as has been mentioned previously, difficulties arising from shortage of staff there is urgent need for accommodation to The exterior of the building will be and pressure on hospital beds), we are relieve the congestion, plans are proceed- plain but attractively finished, with point- lagging behind in the standard of treat- ing for the erection immediately of one ed stone walls to the gable ends of the ment compared with, say, Great Britain. Custodial Home and one block of quar wings overlooking the outdoor recreation The building of what is from the architec- ters. This work will be carried out be- ground, and all other external walls plas- tural point of view a first-rate Mental

fore the site formation work is complete. tered and finished in warm and cheerful Hospital will enable this work to be car-

colours. The concrete roof surmounting The Custodial Home, marked "A" on ried out more easily and with less strain the site plan, will be two storeys

the building will have a shallow, but to both the staff and patients. It could both

very noticeable, slope falling away from Hoors being similar in plan.

the ridge in the centre of each section of also help to attract more doctors and building is T-shaped, and on each

the building, providing a very interesting nurses to take up psychiatric work, which there will be a large day room, which

roof line which will add considerably to is a matter of great importance.

will serve as common sitting room

the attractiveness of the building. dining room, occupying practically The new Mental Hospital will be situat full length of the main section, with two At the same time the Custodial Home ed on an excellent site, comprising be-

25-bed wards, one in each of the wings. is being built, a block of quarters will tween 30 and

40 acres of

undulating Single bedrooms of which there will be ten be erected on the adjacent site set aside ground to the north-west of the

21 altogether will be placed at the extreme for the residences. This will be a four- Milestone on the Castle Peak Road. The end of each of the wings, in which

will site plan illustrates the arrangement of also be situated secondary stairways. The for the hospital amahs.

storey building which has been designed the hospital buildings which, when com- building

It will, however, will thus accommodate 120 first be used to house male and pleted, will accommodate 1,000 patients. patients, 60 on each floor.

female At the junc- At the moment approval has been

take required to given tion between the day room and the wards

of the for the construction of buildings to house is a duty room, so positioned that the patients in the Custodial Home, and when half that number. but it is hoped that attendant will have a full view not only the rest of the scheme is completed this before this work is completed, it will be of the day room and the two wards but building will be reconverted to its origin possible to carry out the scheme in its also of the outdoor recreation area.

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