No. 2.
HONGKONG.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
PUBLIC WORKS
COMMITTEE
at a Meeting held on the 14th July, 1910.
No.
5
1910
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, July 21st, 1910.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM, C.M.G.), Chairman. the Colonial Treasurer, (CHARLES MCILVAINE MESSER).
Mr. EDWARD OSBORNE.
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Mr. HENRY KESWICK.
ABSENT:
The Honourable Mr. EDBERT ÅNSGAR HEWETT.
Hospital at the Quarantine Station, Laichikok. (I in C.S.O. 3013/1906.)
The Chairman laid before the Committee a plan of a hospital and contingent buildings which it was proposed to erect at the above Station. The hospital accommodation consisted of 20 beds for men and 10 for women, in addition to which there were quarters for the necessary nursing staff, a kitchen, a latrine and a mortuary. The site on which these buildings were to be erected was a flat area of land just inside the entrance to the Station.
The estimated cost of the buildings was $10,000, in addition to which it was proposed to spend a sum of $1,000 in doing up the paths. The amount which could be expended during the current year would be about $6,000.
After full discussion, the Committee were of opinion that, in view of the extensive provision of hospital accoinmodation at Yaumati and Kennedy Town and having regard to the rarity of the occasions on which a quarantine station has been required in the past, the provision of a hospital at the station is unnecessary.
They considered that, if the necessity for such provision should arise, some temporary accommodation could at any time be provided.
The Committee then adjourned.
Laid before the Legislative Council this 21st day of July, 1910.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
W. CHATHAM, Chairman.