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First floor :- combined trough closet and urinals (9 seats and 8 urinal stalls), connected by a bridge with the upper floor of the market; quarters for scavenging coolies (2 rooms); kitchen and bathroom.
Second floor :- quarters for a market overseer (3 rooms, kitchen, pantry, store and bathroom).
All the buildings are fitted with electric light and, in addition to a water service connected with the City mains, a system for the distribution of water obtained by pumping from a well in the market building erected in 1906 on the plot of land to the north of the old Harbour Office has been installed. The latter supply is used for flushing the trough closets and urinals and for other purposes of a similar nature.
The market was opened for trade on the 1st October.
1913 Estimates, $90,000.00.
1913 Expenditure, 88,922.99.
Total Estimates, - $240,000.00 Expenditure to 31/12/13, 189,071.61
A balance of $13,000 remained to be paid under the contract in 1914, besides other items.
96. Civil Hospital-Operating Theatre, &c.-An account of the various minor works which had to be carried out in connection with the construction of the operating theatre was given in last year's Report. The entire work was completed and handed over to the Medical Department in November. The building, containing the theatre, is a two-storied one and is situated at the south-eastern angle of the main hospital building with which it is connected on both floors. The accommodation provided on the ground floor comprises an Ophthalmic Room, an X-Ray Room, two Dark Rooms, a Coal Store and a Heating Chamber, and, on the upper floor, the Operating Theatre, Preparation Room, Sterilising Room, Instrument Room, Anæsthetic Room, Surgeons' and Nurses' Rooms.
The walls are of Canton red brickwork built in cement mortar with Amoy brick facing and cement mouldings, etc. All the floors, including those of the verandahs, are of cement concrete, those on the ground floor being finished with granolithic and those on the upper floor with "Terrazzo", while the verandahs are finished with red tiling. The building is covered with a flat roof of ferro-concrete, covered with 8-ply Ruberoid patent roofing and finished with granolithic.
The walls generally are plastered internally but those of the Operating Theatre are lined for their full height with white-glazed tiles, whilst the remaining rooms on the upper floor have tiled dadoes about 49" high. All angles are rounded. All plastered walls are painted so as to be washable.
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