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Over 80 per cent. of the inhabitants of the Middle Ward
would in this way be within seven miles of one or other
hospital.
A modification of this scheme might be adopted were
the Lower Ward District Committee, who are also now
considering this subject of hospital accommodation, to
combine with the Middle Ward Committee in erecting a
joint-hospital between Cambuslang and Blantyre. Such a
hospital might contain about 40 beds, of which the Lower
Ward would require 15 for the Shettleston and Tollcross
portion of their district.
This would necessitate a central hospital of not more
than 100 beds, and would enable a site to be chosen
still more convenient for the remainder of the population,
as, for instance, in the neighbourhood of Motherwell.
As to comparative cost of small and large hospitals, I am
of opinion that the cost per bed in the former need not
exceed £120 per bed, exclusive of site, and in the latter
£100 per bed.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JAS. McLINTOCK.
COUNTY OFFICES,
HAMILTON, Jan., 1892.

On the same day on which I received the proof of the
foregoing report from the printer, Mr. Dobson's report on
the same subject was placed in my hands. It was at once
forwarded to the printer, and is now appended. Mr. Dob-
son's estimate per bed for large hospitals is under, and for
small hospitals above, the figures given by me.
J. McL.

GENTLEMEN,
From further enquiries I learn that hospitals upon the
pavilion style can be erected at the rate of from 3 1/2d. to
4 1/4d. per cubic foot, according to the character of the
arrangements and artistic work displayed upon them.
For instance, a pavilion capable of accommodating 30
patients, such as is provided at Belvidere, with the most
approved appliances for heating and ventilation, oak
polished floors, white brick string courses, and arches to all

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the walls, can be erected at the rate of 4 1/4d. per cubic foot,
or £80 per bed; but I presume a less elaborate structure
will suffice for the Middle Ward, such as delineated upon
the plans herewith submitted.
The material with which they are to be constructed is
brick, 16 inches thick, with a hollow space between the
outer 9-inch and inner 4 1/2-inch facing of brickwork, with a
damp course of third-class Caithness paving, and white
string brick courses, and arches to the walls forming the
front elevation, and one of the side walls of each pavilion.
The interior of the walls to be plastered with Keen's
cement, the ceilings with the ordinary plaster. The floors
laid with Quebec red pine flooring, 3 inches broad.
The wards could be heated by an ordinary fire at one
end, and a slow combustion stove at the other, and
ventilated by openings in the side walls for the admis-
sion of fresh air, and the extraction of the foul by the
aid of ventilators placed upon the ridge of the roofs, and
by flues heated by the fires and stoves.
Pavilions constructed upon these lines can be erected at
a rate of 3 3/4d. per cubic foot, and as these shown on plan 2
contain 61,375, the cost to erect the two will be £960.
The walls of the administrative department will be of
the same construction as the wards, and the internal fittings
of the plainest character, so that the rate per foot will not
exceed 6d. for one part of it, and 5d. for the kitchen and
offices - the two costing £419.
In selecting a site I presume that one with its boundaries
40 feet distant in all directions from the extreme points of
the hospital will meet the requirements of the institution,
and assuming that it will be necessary to enclose it upon
three of its sides, with a wall 6 feet high, and the fourth
with a dwarf wall, railing, and gate, the cost in doing so
will be £230.
For van shed, washing-house, mortuary, and disinfecting
room, £140.
The total cost being as follows:-

HOSPITAL WITH 20 BEDS.
Pavilions, --- £960.0.0
Administrative Department, --- £419.0.0
Enclosing of site, --- £230.0.0
Van sheds, &c., --- £140.0.0
Total, £1,749, or at the rate of £87 9s. per bed.