16 HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION. 



2nd. The Directors of the Prince Alfred Hospital might obtain 

 from the Government a sufficient sum to enable them to put up 

 the administration block of the hospital at the same time that 

 they erect the two front pavilions — these would constitute a 

 working establishment for 128 beds, into which, when finished, 

 the patients could be removed from the front building of the 

 Sydney Infirmary. That structure would then be taken down, a 

 new kitchen, mortuary, &c., be erected, and the centre space 

 drained, laid out, and planted, down to the Domain wall. 



Under this plan the south wing would serve as the receiving 

 hospital, one floor being devoted to men and the other to women ; 

 it is larger than is necessary for this purpose, and the proportion 

 between the sexes is unsuitable. A large and very valuable piece 

 of ground would be devoted to a purpose for which a smaller 

 piece in another position would answer. 



This plan would yield 207 beds, which with sixty in St. Vincent's 

 would meet present requirements, and the Prince Alfred Hospital 

 woiild be capable of enlargement from time to time, but it would 

 be open to the before-mentioned fault of having two establish- 

 ments. 



The Nightingale wing, being larger than is necessary for the 

 purposes of such an amount of ward accommodation, should be 

 converted into a training-school for sujDernumerary nurses, to go 

 out on hire, or for employment in country hospitals ; indeed, the 

 training of such persons should be provided for in any scheme 

 that is adopted. 



The following table shows the cost, accommodation, &c. : — 

 SCHEME B. 



Beds. Cr. Dr. 



Building a new kitchen, mortuary, &c., laying out £ £ 



gi'ounds of Infu-mary for south wing to serve as 

 a Receiving Hospital, &c. 77 7,000 



Building two pavihons of the Prince Alfred Hos- 

 pital 



Building administration block 



St. Vincent's Hospital 



Prince Alfred Fund 



Eeq aired from Government 



Total beds 265 £51,000 £51,000 



3rd. Sufficient pavilions of the Prince Alfred Hospital to 

 contain 200 beds with the administration block might be built at 

 once, and at the same time a Eeceiving Hospital to contain thirty 

 beds might be erected on the Plagstaif Hill, or other convenient 

 site, to accommodate twenty men and ten women. "When these 

 were complete, all the patients could be removed from the 

 Infirmary, and the Grovernment resume the land and buildings, 

 the latter of which would make reasonably good Public Offices, 

 though vmhealthy for hospital purposes. 



128 24,000 



20,000 



60 



... 24,000 



... 27,000 



