3.48. Site formation for the large new hospital at Lai Chi Kok continued during the year and work on the main building substructure was commenced at the end of the year.
3.49. The Tang Shiu-kin Hospital at Morrison Hill was virtually completed. The building was designed by a private architect appointed by Sir Shiu-kin TANG who donated $1 million towards the cost. The building, 6 storeys high, contains a casualty and out-patient department, maternal and child health clinic, casualty and maternity wards, general dermatology and social hygiene department, health nurse training school and nurses quarters.
3.50. Site formation work was completed for two hospitals at Siu Lam to be built on adjoining sites; namely, the Siu Lam Hospital for the Mentally Subnormal and a Prisons Department Mental Hospital. Both projects were designed by a private architect and construction work commenced towards the end of the year on the Siu Lam Hospital for which funds are being provided by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club.
3.51. Work on the substructure for the new Convalescent Ward Block at Kowloon Hospital was completed and construction of the main building was well in hand. The building, seven floors high, will accommodate 586 convalescent patients and thereby reduce the pressure on bed spaces in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, allowing more beds to be available there for acute cases.
3.52. Other projects completed during the year included an extension to the Tuberculosis Laboratory at the Government Institute of Pathology, Sai Ying Pun, whilst at Queen Mary Hospital extensions and alterations to provide additional beds were well in hand.
New Territories Administration Buildings
3.53. A scheme to provide 344 quarters of varying grades in eight separate 5-storey blocks, and including four shops, was completed at Au Tau, New Territories. A 30-classroom school on the same site had been completed in the preceding year.
Police Buildings
3.54. At Park Road on Hong Kong Island, two blocks containing 48 police inspectorate married quarters were completed, the superstructure of three blocks containing 70 similar quarters was under construction at Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, and site formation for a further 29