3.44. Other buildings completed included an extension to the Kowloon City Maternity and Child Health Centre, a clinic at Tin Kwong Road Police Quarters, Kowloon and a standard 24-bed rural clinic and maternity home at Castle Peak.
3.45. Alterations to two floors of the Tsan Yuk Hospital, under the control of a private architect, were completed. Site formation work for the new Lai Chi Kok Hospital continued and work was commenced on the Tang Shiu-kin Hospital, designed and controlled by a private architect.
3.46. Work was in hand on a dental clinic at Tong Fuk, Lantau Island, a 24-bed urban clinic and maternity home at Chai Wan, and the new convalescent ward block at Kowloon Hospital. This building will accommodate 586 convalescent patients, on five floors and will considerably reduce the pressure on convalescent bed space in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, thus allowing more use of beds there for acute cases. Work on the sub-structure of this block was stopped in November 1967 after concrete cube test results proved to be below acceptable standards and, as a result of further investigations, the work completed to date was finally condemned and demolition was ordered. This order was contested by the Contractor who has since decided to take legal action against Government and a court case is now pending.
New Territories Administration Buildings
3.47. A small building at Tuen Mun San Hui, Castle Peak, was completed to provide a post office, sanitation depot and quarters for the staff.
3.48. Work was nearing completion on the complex of departmental quarters at Au Tau, which will provide 344 quarters of varying grades in eight 5-storey blocks.
Police Buildings
3.49. At Wong Tai Sin, a project comprising 791 quarters for police rank and file was completed. These quarters, of varying sizes to suit the rank and needs of the occupants, are arranged in four 12-storey blocks. Lifts are provided to the 5th and 9th floors, with staircases serving the remaining floors, so that no person need walk up or down more than three floors to his quarter. Play areas for children are also provided on
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