CROMWELL HOSPITAL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 268, 17 November 1874, Page 6

CROMWELL HOSPITAL.

We have been favoured with the following description of the Bospital building : The building is designed with the administrative department in the centre, and male and female wards on each side. This block contains entrance hall, from which enter the governor and matron's parlour and bedroom ; and surgery adjoining. Passing through the corridor is the bathroom, common to all the wards, also the kitchen, pantry, &c. To the right of the administrative block, is the ward for females, and on the opposite side the ward for the males. Each ward is provided with French casement windows, for the purpose of admitting patients on stretchers without the trouble of having to carry them through the passages. The heating is by means of open fireplaces, and thorough ventilation has been provided. Cold air is admitted from the outside by flues through the walls, with openings inside above the floor level, which are xinder the control of the nurses, and are made to open and shut as required. The vitiated air passes off at the ceiling, and is conducted into an air trunk extending throughout the entire length of the building, and leading into ventilating tunnel in roof. The front elevation shews the administrative block in the centre. This is finished with a gable containing principle entrance doorway, aperture for clock, &'c.; the - openi ings being finished with moulded projections,

supported by ornamental trusses under. The corners 'of walls are finished with rustic quoins. In the centre of the building, at junction of ridges, is a handsome turret, having arched openings on all sides, supported on pilastres with moulded caps and bases, and finished on the top with moulded cornice, &c; •'■ }'" '■>' ■ ' ! >'i'ijj} .• /,■ !< >:>: ~-■ The roof is covered with lead, and is surmounted by an ornamental iron vane. The walls are of stone outside, and all the inside walls, chimneys, &c. r ; are; of 'concrete. '>;> The front elevation is finished in Portland cement, and the remaining portions of the walls will be pointed. .: .-. iiO ', Mr F. W. Burwell, of Queenstown, is the architect, and Mr James Taylor, of Cromwell, the builder.