SIR,
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Appendix V.
(Messrs. Leigh and Orange to Colonial Secretary.)
HONGKONG, 8th November, 1895.
We are instructed by the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital to request your kind consideration of the question of enclosing the ends of verandahs of the north ward of the Tung Wa Hospital for the purpose of providing latrines, lavatories and clothes
store rooms.
The Committee are very averse to thus closing the verandabs and preventing free communication all round the wards, and also they fear that by shutting up so much of the verandahs, the ventilation of the wards will be greatly injured.
We think ourselves that it would be far better if a detached block was built abutting on Po Yan Street somewhat similar to the block now being erected for the central ward, and we enclose a plan * showing the block we now propose at the position marked A.
We shall be glad of your early consideration as in the meantime the work in question is stopped.
We are at your service in case you wish for any further information.
Yours faithfully,
*Not
priated,
The Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Sceretary.
LEIGH & ORANGE..
(Messrs. Leigh and Orange to Colonial Secretary.)
HONGKONG, 13th November, 1895.
DEAR SIR,
We are obliged for your letter No. 2102 of yesterday's date permitting certain alterations to the Tung Wa Hospital plans.
As regards the drainage, this work is included in the contract and is now being proceeded with, and we hope will be completed in about two months, but great difficulty is being met by the number of large boulders.
The Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
Yours truly,
LEIGH & ORANGE.
(Messrs. Leigh and Orange to Colonial Secretary.)
SIR,
HONGKONG, 21st November, 1895.
your
We have been requested by the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital to ask kind consent to another modification of the proposed additions to the Hospital.
The Committee, we now find, do not wish to build the block of latrines, lavatories, &c., abutting on Po Yan Street and shewn on the plan forwarded in our letter of the 8th instant.