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1225 Each block is approached from the main corridor by covered bridge, with free ventilation at each side and of sufficient height only to afford proper head ] The object of this arrangement is to isolate each HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, amid many hearty congratu-room. from aerial contact with the other wards, and thus to ward tions of loyalty, laid the foundation stone of the New the connecting corridors being channels for the conprevent Infirmary, Derby, on Thursday, May 22nd. The veyance of air from one ward to the other. The wards are received an address from the Corporation of Derby, and from 127 feet long and 29 feet wide, and are arranged to hold her carriage replied as follows :-" I have received with twenty-four beds each. Each bed is separated from its much pleasure your loyal and dutiful address, and I highly neighbour’s by a window, and each patient will have 145 feet floor space and 1890 feet of cubic space. The floors will appreciate the cordial welcome which has been accorded toof laid with teak or some similar hard wood bedded be of It is with sincere faithful satisme by my people Derby. faction that I observe how largely your ancient borough directly on concrete, and the framework of the floors and In the shares in the general prosperity and progress of my king- ceilings will be of iron bedded in concrete. dom, and I feel encouraged in meeting the responsibilities finishing of the walls, floors, ceilinga, windows, and in order to tthat devolve on me when I know I have the hearty support doors, all internal angles will be of my faithful subjects. Although I am glad to be here to- provide against lodging places for dust. The wards day, I cannot but feel the greatest sorrow, which, I am will be warmed partly by open fireplaces placed in the sure, is shared by you all, at the death of Lord Edward centre with descending flues, and partly by steam coils Cavendish, who was so universally beloved. I condole most placed in window recesses and provided with fresh air sincerely with his father and his family, and regret that from outside. At the further end of the wards are two this sad event has deprived us of the presence of Lord towers, connected with the wards by covered bridges, con. Hartington on this occasion." Addresses from numerous taining the sanitary offices and the bath rooms. Between these towers arebalconies for the use of convalescent patients. other bodies were also presented. On arrival at the Infirmary, where a guard of honour of Block 6 is on the ground njor, exactly similar to Nos. 4 the 1,,t Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters (late 45th Regi- and 5 On the upper floor it contains six small wards for ment), was drawn up, Her Majesty was received by the one bed each, and a general ward for ten beds, all of which High Sheriff of the county, the Mayor of Derby, and Lord will be allotted to the gynaecological department. Block 7 Scarsdale, in the absence of the President of the Infirmary. is similar in all respects to Nos. 4 and 5. Block 8 is a twoLord Scarsdale read an address, to which the Queen made storey building, and will be devoted on the ground floor to the following reply:—’’It is with sincere pleasure that I diseases of the eye. It contains two wards for six beds receive your address and lay the foundation stone of the each, and has, in addition to the usual ward offices, a I earnestly hope separate operation room, with a recovering room attached. new building which you propose to erect. that this undertaking, in which I take a deep and personal The upper floor of this block contains two wards for The out-patient interest, may effectively contribute to the relief of human children, with the necessary offices. (No. 9) is at the extreme south-east of suffering, and to the help of those whose career of department honourable labour has been interrupted by accident or the main corridor,and is a one storey building. The by sickness. I am glad to testify by my presence entrance for patients is in the centre of the front here to day my appreciation of the generous efforts that facing the London-road. Immediately inside the en. !have been made on behalf of this noble charity." trance are two small waiting lobbies for new patients, The Lord Bishop of Southwell offered prayer. Upon the separated from each other by the porter’s office. From these ’trowel and level being handed to Her Majesty by Mr. access is obtained to the general waiting hall. Off this hall Young and Mr. Hall, architects, the Queen laid the founda- are placed the four consulting rooms, each of which is protion stone, after which the following presentations were vided with a small examining room. From these consultmade to Her Majesty by the Earl of Lathom :-The Lord ing rooms the patients will go to a second waiting room, where ’Bishop of Southwell, the Lord Bishop of Derby, the High they will wait their turn to receive their medicines from Sheriff of the county, Lord Scarsdale (vice-president), the the dispensary. Behind the dispensary is the pathological ,architects, the senior physician (Dr. W. Ogle), the senior department and museum. The chapel (No. 10) is placed surgeon (Dr. W. G. Curgenven), the house surgeon (Dr. midway between the back administration and the eastern C. H. Taylor), and the matron (Miss Pratt). Her Majesty ward pavilion (Blocks 4 and 5). In the corresponding posire-entered her carriage, and the Royal party returned to tion to the last on the western side of the administration block is the operation room. Beside the operation room the Midland Railway Station by the London-road. The following is a description of the contemplated build- itself there is a room for the administration of anaesthetics, room will be lined ings :-The new hospital for the county of Derby will and a room for the staff. The operation - consist of thirteen blocks of buildings, which for the pur- with marble slabs up to height of between seven and eight pose of description may conveniently be numbered as feet, above which the walls and ceiling will be painted and follows : (1) Front administration ; (2) back administration ; varnished. The floor will be laid with " mischiati," which ’(3) laundry and engine house ; (4, 5, 6, 7, and 8) ward consists of marble chips bedded in cement, and forms a very pavilions; (0) out-patient department; (10) chapel; (11) opera- hard, impervious surface. In all its details every effort tion room ; (12) home for nurses ; and (13) mortuary. The will be made to secure as entirely aseptic conditions as ’central block, round which the wards and other buildings possible. The home for nurses (Block 12) is a detached are grouped, is No. 1 (the front administration) This is a building, and will afford accommodation for forty-eight three-storey building, and contains on the ground floor the nurses. Each nurse will have a separate bedroom and main entrance to the hospital with the secretary’s office, separate sitting room, and reading rooms will be provided waiting-room, porter’s office, and room for medical staff for the staff nurses and probationers respectively. The closely adjacent. The eastern part of the ground floor is mortuary block (No. 13) is also a detached building, and devoted to the casualty department with its separate will contain, in addition to the mortuary and post-mortem entrance, waiting-room, consulting.rooms, and a small ward room, a separate chamber where bodies will be placed for vor cases of urgency. On the Brat floor is the board room, friends to view, and an ambulance house and stable. Exterwith the residential quarters for the medical staff and nally the buildings will be faced with red bricks, with the matron. The second floor is devoted to bedrooms Bentley Brook stone mullions, cornices, and mouldings. -for the servants. This building is connected to the back The style adopted is late Elizabethan. administration (Block No. 2) by a corridor, and again to the main hospital corridor, which, running at light angles, divides the block in question into two unequal parts. The JUBILEE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL lower or larger part of the block contains on the ground ’floor the stores, linen rooms, &c , and on the upper floor SOCIETY. the kitchen offices and larders. The upper or smaller part -,contaips on the ground floor the nurses’ dining-room, serTHE official celebration of the jubilee of the Pharmavants’ hall, and pantry, and on the upper floor, bedrooms ceutical Society took place on Tuesday evening at the -and sitting-rooms for the porters. Block No. 3 contains the house, 17, Bloomsbury-square, W.C., in the for infected with washhouse a the Society’s linen, laundry, separate boiler house, engine-room, disinfecting house, and cremator presence of a very large number of ladies and gentlemen. or refuse. Block Nos. 4 and 5 are similar in all respects, The President (Mr. M. Carteighe), who occupied the chair, so that a description of one will suffice for the other. i read the names of the original members and founders of the

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