2.32. A scheme by private architect to provide 110 lower grade married quarters at North Point for the Preventive Service was nearing completion. The formerly completed first stage of this project provided similar quarters for Fire Services personnel.
2.33. At Magazine Gap work was finished on four 13 storey buildings to provide 100 quarters for Government officers. Work was finished also on a large building at the junction of Kennedy and Macdonnell Roads to provide 124 service flats for Government officers. Each of the service flats provides a living room with a small cupboard type kitchen, a bedroom and bathroom, while a proportion of the flats have balconies. Communal dining and lounge facilities are also provided.
2.34. The Tai Hang Tung Community Centre was completed and handed over to the Social Welfare Department. The cost of this five storey building was met from the World Refugee Year Fund.
2.35. Construction was well advanced on the Tong Fuk Open Prison at Lantau which occupies a steeply sloping site. The scheme comprises 12 two storey dormitory blocks, each block with accommodation for 100 prisoners. An administration building contains offices, stores, a large combined dining and recreation hall, workshops, a laundry, clinic and chapel. Other buildings provide 4 Type II quarters for prison officers, 97 other married quarters of differing grades, and barrack accommodation for 60 single warders.
Medical Buildings
2.36. A large programme of medical buildings was in hand. Except for some minor external works, the alterations, additions and improvements to the old Kowloon Hospital buildings were completed. Two new clinics at Tsuen Wan and Yuen Long, both by the same private architect, were also finished and occupied by the Medical Department.
2.37. Major additions and alterations at Queen Mary Hospital made good progress. The new sisters' and nurses' quarters building, by a private architect, was nearing completion; a new building, which will provide professorial suites, laboratories, and lecture and demonstration facilities for medical students, was well advanced. Building also progressed on the new operation theatre and pharmacy block and the new radio diagnostic wing.
2.38. New wards for 240 more patients were in course of construction at Castle Peak Mental Hospital. Piling was finished and building
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