 They had one door and six windows with flap-type shutters, and Gabriel requested that they be ceiled and have their floors repaired.Although they were not waterproof, were very hot in summer and very cold in winter, the single-skin walls apparently reduced cockroach infestations.He claimed that "housing, diet, hygiene and conditions generally were infinitely superior [to Palm Island] on Fantome Island and I am not surprised that the patients at Fantome are not anxious to be discharged to Palm Island".