NEW HOSPITAL BUILDING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1529, 27 August 1912, Page 4

NEW HOSPITAL BUILDING.

VALUABLE ADDITIONS. Messrs. Crichton and M'Koy, architects, aro calling for tenders for the erection of an important addition to the group of buildings connected with tho Wellington Hosp lt „l. The new building will occupy tno area between tho western wing of tho main hospital and tho Carrara Company s premises, and will front tho southern sweep of tho main drive in (ho Hospital grounds. The new building will have a frontage of 72ft. and a depth of bßtt., and will consist of a basement (over half tho section) and two-story, to be erected in brick, with interior partitions of fibrous plaster board on timber frames. .The basement will be used as a boilorhouso for heating purposes, and as a bulkstore for tho Hospital generally. The ground floor is conveniently arranged for tho reception and treatment of ont-pati-onts-one-half being set aside for women and tho other for men. A commodious, porch entrance admits to a corridor, which divides the door into two suites of apartments. The out-patient, having given his mime to tho record clerk, will pass on to tho porter, who will give him a number. He is then ushered into tho waiting-room (a largo apartment 20ft. Oin. bv 34ft.), where ho waits until liis number is called, on which ho passes into the doctor's room. If it is_ a enso requiring medicino only, tho pationt is given a proscription, and will pass on to tho dispensary, and having received tho medicine will pass out of tho building at tho back, which faces tho southernmost road entrance to (ho Hospital. If the case is one for examination, tho patient, is passed on to tho examination room, and if if is an accident and there is any wound-dressing (o bo done a room is provided for I hat purpose. These rooms all open one into the olhor on both sides of 11m building—a. side for each sex, but the dispensary is iu the centre, and common to botlu but is approached from different sides. In every caso the patients pass right through the building, never by any chance leaving by the main entrance in the Hospital grounds proper, an arrangement essential to .systematic working of this department of tho Hospital's activities. Tho second floor front will bo divided into laboratories for pathological and bacteriological work, with a special room for tho storage of vaccines and a fullvequipped sterilising room. Tho rear linlf [of the tos flat is eo far unallotted, i