TIMARU HOSPITAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18629, 26 July 1930, Page 17

TIMARU HOSPITAL.

ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK. DESCRIPTION OF BUILDING.

At last week’s meeting of the South Canterbury Hospital Board, a decision was arrived at that the proposed new administrative block be not gone ahead with in the meantime. The new block was to have been a two storey brick building, having a frontage to Queen Street of 90 feet, facing east, near the present back entrance to the HospiaL In design the building was to have been Georgian, having a high roof of blue Welsh slates. The main entrance, set in the centre, is approached by a wide flight of marble steps, having square piers with bronze lantern light* on each. Through a small porch, double entrance doors opened to the entrance hall.

On the right of the hall is situated an inquiry office connecting the whole building. On the immediate left is a staircase leading to the first floor, and also to the basement. The whole of the south end of the building is devoted to the outpatients’ department, comprising waiting hall, consulting room, with two examination rooms off same, and casualty and outpatients’ dressing room, all fitted up with basins, sinks, sterilisers, etc. Provision is made in the north end of the building for general office, medical superintendent’s office, cloakrooms, and the commencement of the main arterial corridor, which, it is hoped, w*.., at a future date, link up the whole of the hospital buildings. Between the corridor and the outpatients’ waiting hall is the dispensary, elaborately fitted up with shelving, cupboards, sinks, etc. On the first floor, provision has been made for an up-to-date dental department for outpatients, comprising two surgeries, waiting room, office and large workroom fitted up with benches, sinks, cupboards, etc. On this floor also are the living quarters for the resident medical officers, consisting of three bedrooms, sitting room, kitchenette. bathroom, shower and oalcony. Along the whole frontage of the building is a basement, wherein provision has been made for a medical clinic, workshop, splint store, fireproof room for film storage, and unallotted space. In the basement also is the calorifier room, where steam from the main boiler house is laid to two calorifiers, from one of which the building is heated by low pressure hot, water radiators. From the other, thej domestic hot water supply is drawn. In designing the building every effort has been made to make it as fireproof as possible, all walls being of brick or concrete, and floors and ceilings of reinforced concrete. The latest standard hospital construction has been adopted throughout, all internal and external angles are rounded, walls! are finished with hard plaster, and] finished to floor with cove tiling. Elec- j trie bells are provided, also inter-1 communicating house telephones work-] ed from the exchange in the office. I The proposed administrative block! was regarded as part of a re-buildingl scheme, in w’hich it is hoped to include! a new three-storey ward building fori men’s and women's surgical cases, and] maternity wards on the top floor; al two-storey operating block, witn X-rayj rooms and laboratories on the ground! floor; and a new kitchen block. AUI these buildings would be built off al main corridor, which w T ould thus link! every portion of the hospital together! from the administration building. |