THE COSTLEY WARDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13779, 18 June 1908, Page 7

THE COSTLEY WARDS.

TO BE OPENED ON MONDAY. The Costlcy wards, the extension, of winch ■is to be formally opened by the Hon. U. Fowlds on Monday afternoon, form quite a model hospital in themselves There are two wings, both, pointing northward., bur, unfortunately they were not wide enough apart in the original design to allow pi extension of both, as the. extension of the one on the Grafton Road side would .hn. Off the sunlight from the other. The one. nearest the main building has been extended The ward was formerly 50ft long by 21ft wide The new section provides two wards, one on the ground floor and one upstairs, each 91ft long and 26ft wide, and each to hold 22 beds. The old wards were too narrow for general hospital wards, and they have been converted into one ward on each floor, each to contain three beds for special cases, and provision has been made in these old wards for sculleries and nurses sittingrooms, while passages 7ft wide lead into the new wards. A corridor has been provided between the Costley wards and the operating theatre, and this corridor will be ultimately connected with the administrative block by covered ways. The new wards have reinforced concrete floors, and there is a tiled dado Aft high on all the walls, above the dado being Portland cement, painted. There is a ventilator between each bed. and 'each bed is between two windows, with a window in each corner, so that no bed in either ward stands in a corner, this being according to the recognised modern principle. Two sanitary towers have been erected at the north end. separated from the wards by cross ventilating lobbies, . and fitted with the-most modern improvements, everything being designed to prevent the lodgment of dirt or dust. Between these lowers there is a verandah 23ft long by lEft wide for each- ward, floored with reinforced concrete"' asphalted. The extension is an object lesson of application of modern sanitary principles in hospital buildings, and shows, by contrast, how obsolete some portions of the hospital had become. ........ , .. ".