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a bedding
a clean linen store. "In fact
pound floor under the wards split up into
a number of dark compartments and passages which could be neither ventilated nor kept
clean.
A few further remarks:
I criticise myself as to the sanitation questions &
believe (and continuing further inquiries on
this point) that the hospital staff would,
one European nurse per ward, 2 or perhaps
& extra nurses and a European Clerk; the
remainder
of the staff would be hospital coolies. The large cells of Hospital ward by
righted
with a window apparently 18" square, and only one passage lighted at one end only would be uninhabitable even by hospital coolies: Europeans could not
certainly wish to occupy them. Four single
rooms and a small day room on the
first
floor for the European nurses and cook and
for the coolies
a good airy dormitory and Lay come under charge of a sergeant of orderlies would provide properly for the entire staff.
The
segregation wards on the upper
floor are very small, 12×12: have verandahs. And as the patients will be confined there
continuously and do not require a w.c. Each ward and hospital
slop sink of a good pattern would be sufficient.
Very much doubt the necessity
for an operating theatre of the kind provided which implies the existence of a large class
of medical students who was not
I suppose, in the forming Hospital in Hong Kong. A good operating room, well lighted from the N (direct light is impossible in the tropics) with a bye-ward
and nurse's room attached would probably answer all requirements.