THERE ARE THREE ROOMS FOR X-RAYS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 9 (Supplement)

THERE ARE THREE ROOMS FOR X-RAYS

RADIOLOGY is of growing importance in modern hospital treat- ■* ment. At Princess Margaret Hospital, there are three X-ray rooms, one for general purpose treatment, one for head X-rays, and a third for chest X-rays.

The exposed X-ray films will be passed through wall slots to the photographic darkrooms attached to the department for immediate processing. Then, while still wet, they will be hung in a verticallypositioned revolving drum so that they can be available to the .medical staff without their

having to enter the small dark-

In the radiology department’s staff rooms are large viewing panels for displaying X-ray prints. Two of these panels will ‘ have sliding magazine-racks, broadly similar to those used by colour slide projectors, so that prints which will be shown several times over a period of some days will be quickly available. The radiologists will have their own offices, with consolestyle brackets of viewing panels on their desks. Upstairs One floor above the radiology department are the pathology and pharmacy departments. Tests in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases are carried out in the’various laboratories of the pathology department. These include bacteriology, haematology, bio-

chemistry, morbid anatomy and histology, and cytology. There is also a fullyequipped unit for the manufacture of sterile solutions. This has its own mechanical bottle washer, with a tiny metal conveyor belt to carry the bottles. There is a photographic unit, too, for the processing of clinical photographs, and a studio for the photographing of patients under special treatment. Drugs The pharmacy department, which will supply the pharmaceutical requirements of the whole hospital, is nearby. Here, daily requisites of drugs will be made up by chemists, and packed in large wicker baskets for distribution to the wards.

In rooms adjoining the central pharmacy are facilities for bulk manufacture and the preparation of sterile supplies. The gynaecology and, later, the urology clinics will also be on the third floor. Outpatients coming for treatment in both these departments will have waiting rooms here, by the departmental offices. Each clinic will have its own treatment room which will, in effect, be a minor operating theatre, and could be used as one in an emergency.