SOUND PROOF HOSPITAL

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 4

SOUND PROOF HOSPITAL

The new Bradford Koyal Infirmary, built at a-cost-of £500,000, is the finest building of its kind in Great Britain, and embodies the most modern devices in hospital equipment, including sound-proofing precautions of an elaborate nature, which, ensuring the maximum restfulness for the patient, have earned for the building the name of "hush-hush" hospital. There will be no bell-ringing. When a patient signals to the nurses'/ quarters for attention the call is recorded in the head matron s. otfice, and a light shows until the nurse enters the room, and, by pushing a switch near the door, lets the matron know the call has been duly dealt with. The telltale light enables the matron to see that patients' calls are always attended to. me building is described in the Sunday Times" as being of concrete, glazed brick, and a patent material like polished granite, which will not harbour dust All corners and intersections of walls and doors have been given a rounded finish, so as to.facilitate cleaning and to avoid accumulation o£ dirt. The.-windows-are of special glass, which allows beneficial ultra-violet rays to flood the rooms. There are no visible radiators or heating pipes. The heat comes from hidden panels in the ceiling. _^_^^__