now to
-oconpied the old building should be pulled down and the site won't be available for increasing,
the size of the Lock Hospital and for the laying out of a proper recreation ground for its Jumatio. It is not necessary to detail what should be provided for the New Hospital, but we are of opinion that it should be capable of affording accommodation for at least 120 patients. In the present
existing building there have been not less than 87 patients under treatment at one time during this year, and the Colonial Surgeon has been compelled to send smallpox cases to the Seamen's Hospital as there was no room for them in the Civil Hospital, where, under ordinary circumstances, only 2 beds should be arranged. The Quarters for the Resident Surgeon, Apothecary &c. should be in close proximity to the Hospital, though in a separate building, for which space could readily be afforded.
Having due consideration for the difficulty of procuring good plans in the Colony, we consider that a plan and sections of the site, prepared by the Surveyor General, together with full