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be absolutely necessary to go to the expense
in which I am obtaining suitable premises.
Now
in the whole
of the Patients
Hospital could be attended to,
a measure
treated,
which might become
unavoidable at any
moment.
The outlay of a very considerable sum of money would not put the present building into an efficient
state of repair,
and even then,
owing to defective arrangements,
it would still remain unsuitable
for
its intended purpose. We
cannot therefore but conclude that it is both advisable and expedient
to build, and
we are
agreed that
the best site for the new Hospital
is the vacant piece of ground
on the
opposite, or South, side of the Hospital Road, known
on the Map,
as Inland Lots No. 608
and 644. These Lots
can be resumed for about $10,000, and could be levelled and drained at a cost
of $2,000, as estimated by the Surveyor General. By purchasing these Lots the Government will
be in possession of a better and larger site than at present, and the patients
now
under treatment will
not have to be removed; it
may
be hoped, during the progress of the
works.
On the New Hospital being