and lecture rooms for general and special subjects such as woodwork, handicraft, pottery, domestic science, nature study, music and art. A library and reading room are also provided. The second building includes an assembly hall for 600 and a gymnasium with changing rooms common to both, together with a dining hall for 250 and kitchen. The hostel building provides residential accommodation for male and female students, common rooms, flats for four wardens and their families and quarters for menial staff.
Castle Peak Hospital
MEDICAL BUILDINGS
32. The first stage of this scheme, which consisted of a Chronic Block and staff quarters, was completed early in 1957. Towards the end of the year a contract was signed for Stage II of the project which provided complete hospital facilities for 500 mental patients, together with various categories of medical staff quarters. The scheme had been planned for final extension to a 1,000-bed hospital, but soon after signing the contract, instructions were received to proceed with the full scheme, including the additional staff quarters required, as a variation to the existing contract. Thus, while building proceeds, the architects, engineers and quantity surveyors are busy with the drawings and quantities for the additional buildings required, many of which will be similar to those already included in the contract.
33. In accordance with the present day trend in schemes of this nature, the hospital buildings have been limited to no more than two storeys and the staff will be accommodated in houses and relatively small blocks of other quarters. This fits in well with the rural nature of the Castle Peak district and provides a welcome change from the large buildings which tend to characterize present day architecture in the Colony. In all, therefore, the project includes some 36 separate buildings which fall roughly into three groups, namely, the hospital buildings, the senior medical staff quarters and the junior staff quarters.
34. The hospital buildings comprise:
Administration Block, including operating theatre;
Services Block with central kitchen, laundry, laboratories and occupational therapy rooms;
Concert hall for approximately 500;
One male and one female admission block with admission ward, private, insulin, sick and convalescent wards;
Two male and two female chronic ward blocks:
One male and one female refractory ward block;
Mortuary.
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