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These buildings, with Phase I, will accommodate 500 patients together with medical officers and staff, and the scheme has been designed to allow for its expansion to a 1,000-bed hospital. The preparation of working drawings continued for the new 1,300-bed general hospital in Kowloon which, with the gracious consent of Her Majesty the Queen, will be known as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital; preliminary site formation work was also started. Piling was completed for the adjacent Sisters' and Nurses' quarters and tenders were invited for the superstructures. For the existing Kowloon General Hospital, working drawings were prepared for a new three-storey theatre and ward block which will provide two major and two minor operating theatres and wards for seventy additional beds with ancillary accommodation. For the Queen Mary Hospital on Hong Kong Island, a private architect in- vestigated and reported on the feasibility of enlarging and modernizing the hospital by increasing the number of beds, providing new operating theatres, a radiological department, and teaching facilities for medical students and nurses. A private architect also prepared drawings for the new Government clinic at Sai Ying Pun and construction of the building was started.
Buildings for the Police Force included a new divisional police station at Tsuen Wan, with rank and file barrack quarters, single officers' quarters, and four flats for married officers and their families. These buildings were nearing completion by the end of the year. Piling was started in October at Cheung Sha Wan for the large scheme which will provide 826 police rank and file married quarters, together with a twenty four-classroom standard government primary school and a medical clinic. Sites at North Point and Kennedy Town on the Island and at Farm Road in Kowloon were surveyed, and sketch plans were in course of prep- aration for, some 2,000 additional police rank and file married quarters. The Nissen-hutted Volunteer Slopes Camp at Fan Ling in the New Territories was taken over from the Army and adapted for occupation as a police camp. On Lantau Island a police post was completed at Silvermine Bay by a private architect.
As a further stage in the development of the Technical College, Keswick Hall was completed and handed over to the Education Department. The building has an assembly hall and stage for 750, together with a students' dining room and kitchen, and is planned