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Question II.—(continued).
(I.) What quantity of "Water is available for each Patient every day? What is the source
of the Water supply ? What is the quality of the Water ?
(II.) Detail the arrangements as to Baths and Lavatories.
(III.) W h a t is the system of Sewerage; and what the condition ofthe Privies?
Answers:—
N I C O S I A :
General Hospital.
I. The quantity of water is limited, but sufficient. The source is a well dug in
the Hospital ground. Quality is good. A n additional supply has been laid
on by a service pipe from the Public Works Department pumping station.
II. There are three full length enamelled iron baths, one for male wards, one for
female wards and one for Maternity wards. There are two closets for male
patients with two pails in each, and two closets for female patients with one
pail in each.
III. Night soil pails are cleaned several times daily, disinfectants used freely,
and privies frequently white-washed.
Sanatorium.
I. There is a plentiful supply of good water obtained from wells.
II. There are no baths, but a wash room is attached to each Block of Buildings
in which small zinc baths are used.
III. Night soil pails are cleaned daily, disinfectants used freely,and privies frequently
white-washed.
Leper Hospital.
I. The quantity of water is limited. The water supply is from a chain of wells
which also supplies the Mental Hospital. Quality is good.
II. There are two zinc baths and two closets, one for male and one for female
patients.
III. Night soil pails cleaned daily, disinfectants used freely, and privies frequently
white-washed.
L A R N A C A
:
District Hospital.
I. The quantity of water is practically unlimited. The source is the town
aqueduct. Quality is good.
II. There is a bath room for each male and female department, with one full length
bath in each.
III. Drainage of water through cemented conduits into cesspits ; earth closet, two for
male and two for female patients, cleaned daily; disinfectants used freely ; the
closets are separate from the main building and are reached by a roofed passage.
L I M A S S O L
:
District Hospital.
I. The water supply is limited but has been improved by an additional pipe line.
It is derived from the town water-works. Quality is good, but hard.
II. There are two full length enamelled baths, one for male wards and one for
female.
III. There is no sewerage system ; waste water is conducted.by channels into deep
cesspits". T w o closets are provided for male patients and two for females,
there is also a closet for private wards. The dry earth system is in use, the
latrines areflv-proof.are cleaned and disinfected daily andfrequentlywhite–
washed.
F A M A G U S T A
:
District Hospital.
1. The quantity of water is sufficient. Source, a fountain 6-| miles distant, from
which the water is conveyed by an aqueduct. There is also a well in the
hospital ground. Quality is good.
II. There are two lavatories ancl two bath rooms with water laid on.
III. Drv earth latrines are used and the contents trenched in thefieldsdaily.
There is no sewerao-e.
PAPHO.*.:
District Hospital.
I. The quantitv is practically unlimited and is derived from the town supply.
The quality is very good.
II. There is one "bath room and one full-sized bath.
III. There is no sewerage. Earth closet system, cleaned daily.
K T R B N I A
:
District Hospital.
I. Quantity ofwater is sufficient... Source, the town aqueduct and a well in the
hospital garden. Quality is good.
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II. There are two lavatories and two zinc baths. The waste water is carried
awav when necessarv.
III. There'is no sewerage. " The earth closet system, cleaned twice a day.