now that the Legislative Connoil has the
under
Colonial Estimates for next year consideration, to submit a descrifitive Memorandum accompanied by Plans of the
- contemplated in the conversion Look into a General Hospital.
work son
12.
of the
For the disposal of the Look patients
it will be desirable to adhere to the original
proposition of a smaller hospital for 50 beds
(not 55 beds.
I
as stated I presume by
error in Governor Kennedy's despatch
clerical
to the
Secretary of State of 29th November 1876)
3.
By the utilization of the foundations
and main Wall's
of the present ruined and
roofless Old Civil Hospital a substantial and
efficient structure
may
be obtained at a
total cost of #20,000:- For the creation of the
1
mainv
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Edifice a tender of $15.300 from a highly,
- respectable firm of Builders and Contractors... (vide list of the tenbers attached) had already,
accepted last
subject to ultimate
approval been and the remaining $4.700 represents the
year,
value of out offices and sanitary works to be
done on the premises without the
of the main
4.
ises without the four walls
building.
It is to be borne in mind that
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although a new Look Hospital for 30 patients has for reasons of extreme prudence been decided upon, it is hardly possible looking to : the Colonial Surgeon's Returns of this
year
and 1876 vide Appendix 13 that it will ever be tenanted by
more than half that suber.
I have to
(signed) I.M. Prise,
Surveyor ben: a: