Front entrance (above) Rear elevation (below).
Central front elevation.
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LATEST stage in the reconstruc- tion and enlargement of the Kwong Wai Siu Free Hospital in Singapore is the completion of a two-and-a-half-storey block on the site of a hundred-year-old main building recently demolished.
The site of this free hospital covers approximately six acres and was occupied by the old Tan Tock Seng Hospital until it was removed to its present site in Moulmein Road. Some of the old buildings have been extended and renovated. and addi- tional buildings were put up as funds were available.
This newly completed building will accommodate the main adminis tration of the hospital and also provide wards for male and female. patients, staff quarters for nurses and doctors.
It is expected that within the next few years, when funds are available, an additional two storeys will be put on top of the new block to provide still more ward accommodation.
Construction of the new building is of reinforced concrete filled with brick work and fitted with steel casement doors and windows. The foundations are supported by precast concrete piles and are designed to support the planned additional two storeys.
The ground floor of the completed new buildings has an assembly hall, general office, medical stores, recep- tion and registration offices for patients in one wing; and consulting rooms for three doctors, inspection ward, nurses' room, dispensary for Western medicine, a Chinese physi- cian's room with dispensary for Chinese medicines in the other. General waiting rooms with toilet accommodation are in both wings.