Gr. H. F. Nuttall 
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The Interior of the Building. 
The interior of the Institute was planned by Mr Redfern and the writer 
with a view to securing a maximum of convenience in the matter of general 
arrangement, light, ventilation and heating, whilst having regard to considera¬ 
tions of economy in view of the greatly increased cost of building operations 
consequent upon the great war. 
Basements. These are restricted to both ends of the building, the basement 
on the east, serving for the accommodation of bicycles, being entered by a 
gate set in an arched doorway; this basement has a transversely ridged floor 
sloping downward to a level portion partly occupied by bicycle racks. The 
size of this basement corresponds to that of the combined area occupied by 
the staircase shaft, vestibule and lavatories above. 
The basement to the west corresponds in size to the area covered on the 
ground floor by the photomicrographic room, research room, vestibule, part 
of the corridor, sterilizing room and staircase shaft. This basement contains 
the furnace and coal cellars on the north, the exit to the chute from the roof 
(see p. 120), and to the south a small animal room and storage space for a 
carpenter’s bench, refrigerator, boxes, etc. 
A space 4 feet in height, with concrete floor, lies beneath the rest of the 
building, whereby access can readily be gained to all drains, etc. beneath the 
ground floor. 
General arrangement. To economize space, and to have as many research 
room windows as practicable fronting north whilst keeping the rooms adjacent 
to each other, the entrances are placed at both ends of the building. Two 
staircases are provided for safety in case of fire, and a straight corridor runs 
midway along the length of the building on two floors. There are eight research 
rooms occupying the ground floor and first floor, these rooms accommodating 
eight to sixteen workers. 
The main entrance is to the east through double doors whose upper panels 
are glazed and guarded by a grill. The vestibule contains a commemorative 
tablet of bronze in a stone setting of appropriate design (see Fig. 5), whilst 
a small telephone chamber is situated at the bottom of the staircase shaft. 
The corridors (ground floor and first floor) are cut off from the vestibules 
at each end by double swing-doors with glazed panels, being well lit by day 
through borrowed lights and transoms at their sides and from their ends by 
the light entering the vestibules through doors and windows. 
Near the western staircase on all floors a space has been used to advantage 
by erecting light partition walls enclosing store-cupboards and closets for 
housemaids’ sinks where brooms, pails, etc. can be kept. On the ground floor 
the sink and attendants’ lavatory, etc., occupy but one space. 
In the western vestibules on three floors there are hoist holes provided with 
teak trapdoors through which heavy articles can be raised from the basement 
to the top floor by means of a chain and pulley. This simple arrangement 
