Health > Collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the National Government of the Republic of China

— 43
hot water being obtained from a tank room above where it is heated by a calorifier operated
by steam supplied from the main boiler at the power-house. From the calorifier the hot
water enters a hot storage tank controlled at a constant predetermined temperature by an
automatic regulating apparatus.
Laundry.
Seeing that it is proposed to have a hospital in working order a power laundry is
indicated. The block would comprise two rooms in one of which washing was carried
out while the other was reserved for drying and ironing.
Detention Block.
The detention block is required almost entirely for deck passengers, but there may
be need to detain passengers of other classes — e.g., persons refusing vaccination against
smallpox and in consequence some small provision in the shape of a few single and double
bedrooms should be made. The building containing these should have a small recreation
room, together with a kitchen and adequate bathing and sanitary facilities. A room
16 feet by 10 feet conveniently allows two full-sized single beds with essential furniture
to be conveniently arranged.
For other passengers, the dormitory type of building with accommodation for from
twenty to forty persons is suitable. It is necessary, however, to have these dormitories
at a reasonable distance from each other, so that each may be isolated from the remainder
and to have in each a small annex which would accommodate one or two persons for very
temporary observational purposes.
Sanitary and lavatory provision for each block is also required and is better placed
in a separate building.
Hospital Section.
The hospital section is important, and, if intended to house shore cases, would need
to be placed at a spot accessible to the outside and yet isolated from the remainder of the
station.
It would, of course, provide for the hospital needs of persons from infected vessels
and should contain about thirty beds.
Observation Block. — Between the isolation area and the rest of the station, but
separated from both, an observation block, constructed so as to accommodate about six
patients in three separate rooms, should be provided. This block may need its own
kitchen depending on the arrangement of the site, and should have its own sanitary and
lavatory accommodation.
Laboratory and Mortuary. — A suitable building near both the isolation hospital and
the observation block could house both the laboratory and the mortuary.
Changing Block. — The changing block is on the usual three-room principle of
undressing room, bath room, dressing room. This should be placed in the dividing area
between the isolation and the open areas of the station.
Nurses. — Sleeping provision for the nurses would be provided outside the isolation
area, and the kitchen would also be separate and outside the isolation area.