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an
opinion as to the merits of a Project the
chief recommendation of which is that it
can
fairly Colony at
at
meet the requirements of
an enormous
the
economy of money by utilizing a large and well knitt
built
Government edifice which circumstances have left comparatively emfity, and for
which there would have been but little
use again.
It is not pretended that the Project either in the shape of the wards, the general distribution and position of out-
Offices
or in constructional details accords
as rigidly
as one would wish with the
principles of Modern Hospital construction,
are
the other hand none of those
of those principles
sufficiently deviated from to render
the Project undesirable if viewed in all its bearings.
The addition of impervious
ious iron and
concrete floors and roof to the main
would no doubt have been
a
great
building
Avere
improvement, but if this outlay meurred it is questionable, whether other almost equally important constructional changes
should not be embarked in too
and then the difficulty would be where to stop.
(signed)
9.016. Price, Surveyor General .