NURSING HOME

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1932, Page 5

NURSING HOME

GIANT LONDON PROJECT

DWELLERS IN FLATS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 18th December.

Arrangements for the erection of a giant nursing home in Marylebone load, with 600 beds for patients and hotel accommodation, for friends and relatives, have reached an. advanced Btage. ' ■' The scheme mil involve an estimated expenditure of £1,000,000, and provide direct employment for 1000 men for 18 months'. British materials -will be used throughout. Demolition has already begun on the site, and it is expected that building operations will be in full swing by the New Year, and that by the Bummer of 1933 Winpole House, as it is to be named, will be' completed. Situated near Baker Street Station,the nursing home will be easy of acces* from all parts of London and close to the Harley street district. It is ijo be equipped with all the latest appliances known to medical science and will be arranged to give the greatest posssible service to the patient. A section of the building ia being especially arranged for the treatment of rheumatic and other diseases. Tulkish and special baths, electrical dnd other treatments, also laboratories tor research York and an X-ray department are to be installed. An important feature of the building is that there kvill be provision for relatives and friends of patients to stay in the home over a critical period instead of having to -sleep at hotels or to make a suiden ■_ journey. This section will have its Town dining-rooms and lounges. There will also be .special lounges for convalescent patients> with a sheltered roof garden. A OtTINEA A DAY. In an interview, Mr. Harvey, the promoter of tho scheme, explained that the home would cater for people who cannot easily "afford ordinary nursing home fees, and who do not wish to go to public hospitals or institutions when they are ill. He has decided that the cost to a patient for being cared for there shall be one guinea a day and no higher. The patient, of course, will pay the fees for his or her own doctor or surgeon. "I know the voluntary hospitals have endeavoured to do what they can by their paying-bed system," he said, "but that does not touch the fringe of what is required. Owing to prevailing economic conditions and the general move towards flat life with limited home accommodation, the need for a nursing home such, as I am building is greater to-day than ever. While each patient will be attended by his own medical man, there will be a resident medical officer in the home, with six doctors serving under his direction. Their main task will be to look after the .nursing service, but they will be available in eases of emergency when a patient's own doctor is not at hand."

The architect of the building is Mr. C. Ernest Elcock, who designed the new Bethlem Boyal Hospital at Monk's Orchard, as well as the -Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton, the new Hertford County Hospital, and the great Daisyhulme Hospital at Manchester.