 Patients were housed in individual huts grouped in three separate compounds - male, female and "coloured".The huts for European patients were small single roomed, timber buildings, while the huts for the non-European patients were more rudimentary structures of bush timber clad with tea tree bark.The durability of the bark cladding was short-lived, and in 1909 the huts were reclad with corrugated galvanised iron.