including steam boilers, calorifiers, sterilizers, steam heating and laundry equipment, emergency generators, hydrotherapy equipment and general lighting located in Government hospitals and in the British Military Hospital, as well as the Hung Hom pumping plant for the supply of sea water to the Queen Elizabeth and British Military Hospitals. The steam boilers and laundry equipment at Shau Kei Wan Medical Department Central Laundry were taken over for maintenance. During the year a total of 7,973 mechanical, 18,184 electrical and 1,125 air-conditioning repairs were carried out. 1,563 items of hospital equipment were overhauled.
MILITARY WORKS SUB-DIVISION
(Including the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force)
8.53 This Sub-Division is controlled by a small element at Head Office and the remainder is deployed in three Military Works Electrical and Mechanical Depots. These Depots are situated in the main military complexes with responsibility respectively for Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories. Each Depot is supervised by a Warrant Officer or Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of the Royal Engineers on secondment. The staff of each Depot numbers about 90 and they carry out inspections, minor repairs, planned maintenance tasks and attend fault calls. Within each Depot a small workshop with minor repair and test facilities exists to assist in the work. Major repairs and overhauls are carried out either in the main Electrical and Mechanical Workshops in Hong Kong or Kowloon or in situ by staff from these workshops. The maximum liaison between the Military Works Depots and the main Workshops is ensured by an experienced P.W.D. Inspector who plans and controls the flow of work. The Military Works Sub-Division provides a service for the Armed Forces which is essentially one of control and management involving electrical and mechanical equipment which varies from a simple domestic iron to a 1,500 KVA standby electricity generating station on Stonecutters Island.
8.54 During the year the staff of the Sub-Division have carried out 46,126 routine monthly inspections and routine servicing of plant, pressure vessels, air conditioners, kitchen equipment, refrigerators and miscellaneous items of equipment. A total of 40,166 repairs to all types of domestic equipment was carried out, 8,436 items of new equipment were installed.
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