HOSPITAL BUILDINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18170, 16 August 1922, Page 10

HOSPITAL BUILDINGS.

PLANS FOR NEW WORK.

ESTIMATED COST OF £130,000.

Matters in connection -with the hospital building programme wero discussed at the meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board lost evening.

The Building Committee reported that it had approved of the sketch plans prepared by the architect, Mr.. G. W. Allsop, for the nurses' home extension, and it had instructed him to proceed to Wellington to consult the departmental ofScers. The scheme provided for 146 additional rooms complete, as well as -walls and flooring for 12 more rooms on each of the four floors on the south extension. The plans for the genito-urinary block -were also approved, except that provision be made, as suggested by the medical superintendent, for an eye, ear, nose and throat department. The three ward floors provided for 90 beds.

Mr. Allsop stated that the plans had been provisionally approved in Wellington, and the board instructed him to draw plans and specifications, preparatory to the calling for tenders, for the nurses' home extension and the genito-urinary block at the hospital and a women's infirmary ward at the Costley Home. In addition to the eye, ear, nose and throat department the genito-urinary block will include accommodation for the pathological and X-ray departments. The total cost of all the buildings is estimated at approximately £130,000.