Kept as cool as if verandahs were provided while the cost of them be all out of an amount saved
The only question would be with regard to the shading of the windows "but I do not think that there would be much difficulty in arranging some plan of which the sun's rays and I entirely prevented from falling upon the Glass, particularly where as in this case I'm well, I fully think that the windows might be fixed flush with the inside beside of the wall:
and there would remain a means for cooling the air before it passed into the ward.
Dr. Rihaitranki.
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Report to accompany the plans for the Civil Hospital proposed to be erected at Hong Kong
Before proceeding to describe the Building, I have to state that the site which has been selected, though ample in area is singularly ill adapted for the proposed purpose as far as arrangements are concerned. The surface is extremely irregular and the gradients so steep that it has been found to be greatly impossible to find any area which can be made sufficiently evenly level as to admit of the erection of the Hospital in one ground level. Considerable expense must very necessarily be incurred in forming platforms and overcoming the irregularities of the site.
In the Plans it has been decided to propose the erection of Hospitals, one for general patients and another detached, for fever cases. This second Hospital would have 11 Wards with the requisite accommodation for Physicians, Nurses, Baths, Lavatories etc., and a separate washing Establishment should be attached to it but the situation on which these buildings should stand is difficult to determine, until the present Plans have been examined and reported upon by the local authorities.