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■etc. Tiles and hard burnt bricks of different kinds are
used in the Chapel, machine- and boiler-rooms, the main
kitchen, the laundry, etc.
Concrete flooring is used in
secondary rooms and corridors of the basement, and in lofts
where the girders are constructed of reinforced concrete.
Interior staircases will be principally of wood.
The floor-joisting in the pavilions, and in places where
it is desirable on account of the span, is constructed of
reinforced concrete, while in the residential buildings the
joisting will be constructed of wooden beams.
Rooms of less importance will have white-washed walls.
All ceilings and generally also the upper part of the
walls will be plastered and white-washed. The lower part
of walls in laboratories, in sterilising, dissecting, and ope
rating rooms, baths, kitchens, wash-out rooms, and water-
closets, etc., are generally tiled with glazed bricks. All
walls in sick-wards are spatulated and oil-painted (lacquered);
all other walls are oil-painted in the ordinary way.
The windows have generally double frames.
The enclosure round the Hospital concists of a wire
fence 2,3 m. in height, which is to support a clipped haw
thorn hedge.
The w ater su p p ly is derived from the m un icipal w ater-
Avorks.
The sew age flows direct to the m ain sew ers of the
toAvn w ithout clean sin g.
The electricity is supplied from the municipal elec-
tricity. works, the Hospital possessing, however, a reserve
electrical plant sufficient to maintain the heating of the
Hospital, and the lighting of the Operation Buildings, even
if the electricity supply from the toAvn should fail for a
short time.
The quan tity of ven tilation air for the sick-Avards is
100 m 3 per hour per bed.
The volum e of the Avards for
16 beds is about 35 m 3 per bed, the floor space about 9
m 2, and the w indow space about
1/i
of the floor space.
By aid of an electrical fan the fresh air is drawn
through a chamber in which it is tempered by free steam,