Waipiata Sanatorium

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 3, 1 July 1925, Page 141

Waipiata Sanatorium

The following description of the new Sanatorium for consumption at Waipiata is of interest. The picture of the Nurses' Home was published in the January issue. We now have a photograph showing a portion of the Women's Dormitory. The Sanatorium was opened in April.

The Home is a large brick two-story building containing eleven bedrooms, two sitting rooms, a kitchenette, with wash tubs and copper for the staff to do any personal wash. It has three wide sleeping out verandahs. The entrance hall is beautifully panelled in red pine, also the staircase and corridor upstairs. There are two sets of bathrooms and lavatories. The* drawing room is furnished in fawn and blue and is a very pretty room, cosy and homelike. The second sitting room is used for sewing and games.

The two pavilions are almost exactly the same — each containing eight single cubicles and six double ones. Each cubicle has a built in wardrobe, also a locker with marble top. The ceilings are white and the dividing Avails are brown, all the woodwork has been oiled and varnished. The floors are of black pine. They have been sandpapered and oiled and are polishing up beautifully. Each pavilion has a large sunroom, having windows on three sides and a large fire place on the other. Bathrooms, lavatories, linenrooms and box rooms, also a small kitchen and duty-room for the staff.

The Diet Pavilion is a very large building. The patients dining-room is beautifully panelled in red pine, with a large side-board built in of the same wood, over which is a large marble tablet, laid by Sir Maui Pomare in 1924. In the centre of the room is a central heating stove. This room has windows in the three sides and is very bright and airy. Opening off this room, on either side, is a scullery, quite a fair sized room where the patients do their washing up. Next is the kitchen, very bright, with every convenience for cooking for the patients and staff.

The staff dining-room is at the far end of the building, also a small dining-room for porters. Upstairs there are four bed-

rooms, a bathroom, and small box-room. The domestic staff live here. Opposite the kitchen is a large general storeroom, and at the back of the building there are separate storerooms for meat, milk, vegetables, etc. The laundry is up on a rise at the back of the Pavilion, built in brick containing three separate washing-rooms, i.e., one for patients' laundry, one for staff, and the third is used by patients for

their personal washing, an ironing-room and a drying-room.

The doctor's house is finished. It is a lovely home and has a glorious view of the surrounding country.

Our garage is at the back of this building. At present men arc busy making the entrance drive to the Nurses' Home. The tennis court is almost finished. It is immediately in front of the Nurses' Home. Being asphalt it will be used during the greater part of the year.

The old building in which* work has been carried on for two years has been converted into matron's quarters with a separate entrance hall and a spare bed room and sleeping porch — all very comfortalble and pretty.

The nurses love their new home and each one has made her room pretty and individual.

The buildings are all in red brick relieved with white rough-cast and grey slate roofs. When gardens are made around them they will make a picturesque sight in the landscape. There is a beautiful view of far off hills often covered with snow.