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I hove the honour to refer to your tele;’ran No.A/2005
dated the IBfch December, 1944, and to enclose plans for a house
for the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Assistant Surgeon and also an estimate of
materials required.
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Dr. and )rs.
custodian of
The plan was drav,n up by
Kynas, an architect, and
commlttee
myself in
consisting o?
the role of
•he interests of future Assistant Surgeons*
3. The question of whether the Kitchen should be inside
or outside the house was considered at length and, in deference
to &rs. Hynes, who argued that the difficulties of getting
cooks were now so great — and likely to increase when uhe Oil
Company start operations — that she has to do, and future
Surgeons’ wives will almost certainly have to do, most of their
own cooking; and that for that reason the Kitchen should be
inside the house for convenience, and in e reasonably cool place.
Personally,,! favoured the placing of the dirking room, store
room, and kitchen on the east side of the bouse and the drawing
I'oom, office-study, and double bed room on the west and windward
side so that the heat and fumes of the Kitchen v:ould not be
blown into them by the prevailing wind from the North-west, and
so that the kitchen got the morning, rather than the afternoon,
sun. Ho ••ever, the majority favoured the plan as at present
drawn.
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The
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for eventual air-
house has not been designed
conditioning been iso Dr. Hynes considers that the cost of
electricity in Kuwait precludes the Assistant Surgeon’s paying
for tne running of air-conditioning inscalet ions himself. Py"
own view is that the Government of India should install air-
Conditioning throughout Officers’ houses — the Assistant
Surgeon will shortly be an Officer, and future surgeons may well
be officers of the I.A. .C,^ — free of cherge to the occupants
as a contribution to efficiency. I shall state the case fop
this, however, id my proposals for air-■‘•onAltloning the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
building. If it is decided to build the house for air-condition
ing throughout, the only alteration required in the plans is to
lower the roc: 54 throe feet in the rooms to be conditioned, and to
provide for double windows. Aiternalively, if the Government of
Indie decide that officers ruet nay for air-conditioning and a
future surgeon decides that he can pay for it, the entrance
hell which is 31 H 10 X 10 f^et high /cnid be suitable for the
purpose. It could be divided into two rooms by the use of a
foiling door; it is pieced in the coolest part of the house,
protected from the sun by rooms on ail sides, and well placed
to get the benefit of through draughts when the shemal is
blowing. The ’T’ shaped hall and passage are designed to utlize
the Dhaiusl to the utmost. Experience of che Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. building
shows that the full benefit of the Ghana1 — which varies from
almost a full north to almost a full west wind — is obtained
be creating a suction from the back of ohe house through rooms
or passages which in turn creates a draught at an angle to the
direction of the wind.