leading to staircase hall which gives access to the doctors’ room and dispensary, the dentists’ room, head shampoo room and recovery room; while on the first floor are two wards for seven and five beds respectively and a small isolation ward. The top floor contains the operating theatre (top-lit), anæsthetics room, nurses’ sitting-room, bedroom, kitchen and lavatory. The plan is convenient and economical, while the scheme as a whole is an extremely attractive one.
Squash Racquet Court at Hackney Wick
In this Squash Racquet Court an attempt has been made to give to the design a decorative quality not
usually to be found in this type of structure. In order that the building should not appear out of scale with its neighbours, the fact that it consists of a single tall chamber has been cleverly concealed by the device of putting a verandah around it. This latter, which is distinguished by a charming trellis with concave roof above, only reaches two-thirds of the height of the façade, while the upper portion has two windows of moderate dimensions. A pedimental roof with top lights at its apex crowns the whole. Again the architects, Messrs. Adshead & Ramsey, have caught the spirit of the eighteenth century and have produced a scholarly work, delightful in its elegant simplicity and
FIRST FLOOR PLAN.
SECOND FLOOR PLAN.
CLINIC AT HACKNEY WICK.
Messrs. Adshead & Ramsey, FF. R. I. B. A., Architects.