THE MENTAL HOSPITALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19474, 2 November 1926, Page 11

THE MENTAL HOSPITALS.

ACCOMMODATION FOR STAFF

PLANS FOR NURSES* HOME.

A hostel containing 66 bedrooms is to be erected on the Auckland Mental Hospital property at Avondale to accommodate the resident nursing staff. Tenders for the work are being called by the Public Works Department, and it is conditional that the structure should be ready for occupation within six months. The site is on a large vacant area to the south of the existing hospital laundry, and access will be from Gladstone Road, which borders the eastern side of the section. -The building is to be a single storey wooden structure of three parallel wings 40ft. apart. Two of the wings will be about 150 ft, long and 24ft. wide, and these will be devoted exclusively to bedroom accommodation. Each will contain 33 bedrooms measuring Bft. by oft. A passage running the full length of the wing will give access to bedrooms on each side, and on account of this method of construction each bedroom will have a wide window. The walls will be finished with patent composition board. Joining the two sleeping wings will be a passage and a series of bathrooms. Another passage will connect with the third wing, which will be about 130 ft. in length and 24ft in width. In this wing will be a dining room 42ft. by 23ft., and a living room almost as large. Provision will also be made for a room for the matron, and a general sitting room. There will also be a sun porch in one end of this block, and a kitchen in the middle.