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The Mat-shed Annex will be put in hand at once. The Peak Hotel will not be taken over till the necessity for this step becomes apparent.
The military authorities have made their own arrangements for the accommodation of their sick and wounded. Until, however, the Bowen Road Hospital is completed, the Maternity Hospital (12 beds) at the Government Civil Hospital will be made avail- able for seriously ill and wounded military officers, so that they may have the advantage of female nursing.
Additional civil requirements will be met by sending Chinese cases (police and destitutes) to the Tung Wa, Alice, and Nethersole Hospitals and the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, keeping only one ward at the Government Civil Hospital for women requiring urgent treatment.
The sick and wounded of the Chinese Coolie Corps will be treated at the Tung Wa Hospital.
3. For the equipment of the Mat-shed Annex Hospital, and for surgical appliances and drugs for that hospital, and for the one at the Peak Hotel for naval patients, the P.C.M.Ö. will indent on the Deputy Inspector-General.
The furniture, bedding, crockery, and other articles forming the present equipment of the Peak Hotel, will, under section 6 of the Order in Council above referred to, be taken over at the same time as the building itself by an officer of the Public Works Department, a representative of the hotel proprietors and an officer detailed by the P.C.M.O. being present. The reserve of one year's supply of drugs, &c., kept in the military medical stores, and of six months' supply to be kept in future in the Govern- ment Civil Hospital, will meet the probable military and civil requirements at the outset of war without the necessity for any special arrangements for increasing it.
4. The Mat-shed Annex and Peak Hotel Hospitals for naval patients and the military officers' wards in the Maternity Hospital will be administered by the P.C.M.O., who will keep an account of all expenditure involved for subsequent adjustment with the Admiralty and War Office.
He will furnish the Deputy Inspector-General and the Principal Medical Officer with such information as they may require for the purpose of official returns with regard to naval and military patients in the hospitals administered by him. same purpose naval and military medical officers will visit these hospitals.
For the
5. For the Mat-shed Annex and Peak Hotel Hospital for naval patients the Government Civil Hospital staff and the staff of the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children will be partly available, but will have to be supplemented by the following:-
Doctors Nursing sisters Chinese attendants Ward coolies.. Cooks
Mat-shed Annex.
Peak Hospital.
Total.
14642
2
3
12
16
32
8
12
2226
Drs. Muller, Justi, and Harston, who have expressed themselves unconditionally as prepared to place their services at the disposal of Government for work in the hospitals in time of war, will be sent to the Mat-shed Annex and the Peak Hotel Hospitals as soon as they are ready to be occupied. It is proposed to pay them at the rate of 500 dollars per mensem. (Drs. Stedman, Ainslie, and Marriott, who have expressed themselves willing to help provided they can give time to their private practice, will, as far as their services are available, be utilized in the hospitals under naval administration.)
It has not been considered advisable to count on the services of any of the five private nurses in the Colony, whose time is fully occupied in nursing private cases, though one or two might possibly be available in an emergency. It will therefore be necessary, pending the arrival of more nurses that may be sent from England, to get assistance from some of the seventeen ladies in the Colony who have attended ambu- lance and nursing classes, and have registered their names with the P.C.M.O. for services in the hospital in war.
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