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DISTRIBUTION of all Parties for Mobilization, including Clerks and Messengers, after all Telegraphs and Telephones have been connected up.
R.E.
R.A. Telephone Clerks.
Infantry Clerks.
Infantry or R.A. Messengers.
Coolies permanently employed.
Coolies temporarily employed as
Messengers.
R.E. Staff at Head-quarters
Head-quarters
Office
Telegraph
Head-quarter House*
Belcher's Telegraph Office..
Lyemun
Kowloon West
"
**
Deck
"3
North Point
"
Stonecutter's
Belcher's telephones
4+
Lyemun
5+
"
Kowloon
2+
"
Stonecutter's
5+
•
:::
2 :
::
25
"}
Total
16 16
2
2
17
Remarks.
* No operator at Head- quarter House. A.D.C. or other officer and orderly will attend to this telephone.
† Only one clerk provided for each telephone station.
(F.)-Action by Principal Medical Officer.
The Principal Medical Officer will at once arrange for the establisment of the dressing stations shown on the annexed list (Schedule XIV), and for the distribution to sections of the officers and men of the Army Medical Staff Corps, according to the list shown in Schedule II (5 and 5a) in Chapter II, and of the medical and surgical equipment shown in the annexed Table (Schedule XV).
He will then proceed to organize base hospitals and to arrange for obtaining civil medical assistance.
The existing military hospitals would be supplemented by base hospitals in Victoria and Kowloon; the former would be established in the City Hall, and the latter in a portion of the Whitfield Barracks temporarily vacated by the Hong Kong Regiment.
The City Hall is preferable to any barrack, as it would not interfere with the housing of troops or levies, and is well situated for the reception of wounded arriving from the forts by launch.
It would be equipped with 15 beds for officers, 92 for European soldiers, and 25 for Asiatic soldiers: total, 132 beds.
The Kowloon Base Hospital would be equipped with 125 beds exclusively for Asiatics.
The Government Civil Hospital would be utilized for sick and wounded of the Chinese Coolie Corps.
The services of the civil medical practitioners in the Colony, and also those of any Medical Officers of the Royal Navy who might be available would have to be called into requisition to assist the Military Medical Officers. The former would be employed in the hospitals and in other positions involving no exposure to fire.
The complete distribution to hospitals of the Medical Department when thus supplemented would be as shown in Schedule XVI, which indicates also the equipment required for each hospital, and how obtained.
Two launches flying the Red Cross flag will be always at the disposal of the Principal Medical Officer for conveyance of sick and wounded.
On the general base hospitals being established, the wounded from the
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