COLOUR AND THE DOCTOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 5

COLOUR AND THE DOCTOR

The dreariness of doctors’ waitingand consulting rooms has become almost proverbial, but recently there have been signs of change. An increasing number of doctors of to-day aim at having their waiting-brooms decorated in the gay modern manner, so as to help the patient to forget his gloom and ill-health. Quite a number of well-known specialists have lately had their consultingrooms re-decorated after the new idea, of which perhaps the best example is shown in London in a big house just off Grosvenor Square, where 16 specialists work together as as a sort of clinic, after the American plan. Yellow for Cheerfulness On entering, one is shown into a big Oh entering, one is shown into a big room, with panelled walls of bright yellow, furnished like a comfortable drawing-rom. Going up in a roomy lift to see the particular doctor upon whom one is calling, one walks along a white passage, hung with gailycoloured prints, to the consultingrom. Each of the 16 consuii-ing-rooms is differently furnished. bu\ *xll of them are extremely cheerftil looking, with nothing to suggest an ordinary doctor’s room. One of the most attractive has green and silver walls, with painted bookshelves to match.