# IX.-(a.). The booked value of the Construction Plant amounts to $506,565.61
Depreciation which has now been written off..... $200,912.00
Anticipated sales, say of this $305,653.61
$203,769.08
$101,884.53
Under X items 7 and 8 a sum of $913,922.87 is provided to meet Interest and Loss of Exchange and this has not been included in any of the previous Estimates.
X.-(c.) A credit head showing the amount anticipated on sales for Stores now standing on books, less depreciation, has been opened and amounts to $150,000. Further credit on sales of buildings along the line to the extent of about $30,000 are anticipated but are not shown in the Estimate, as they may be required to meet cost of dismantling plant and transport and other minor matters in connection with the tunnels.
No alteration of allocations has been made, in arriving at the above Estimate, although the procedure followed hitherto, is not strictly in accordance with Railway Accounting. It is desirable however that an adjustment be made as soon after the Construction Account is finally closed as possible in order that the various items of expenditure be charged off to their proper heads.
28th February, 1910.
E. S. LINDSEY, M.I.C.E.,
Chief Resident Engineer.
REPORT OF THE RAILWAY MEDICAL OFFICER.
Staff.
Mr. Naidu has been stationed at North Face Camp, Beacon Hill Tunnel, throughout the year.
Dr. Chan Tsan Kun was Assistant Medical Officer at Taipo Kau until the 5th April, when he was transferred to the Bacteriological Institute in Hongkong and his place was taken by Mr. Lam Yun Hae who remained until the end of June when the post was abolished.
Mr. Kelly has superintended the Sanitary Work in the Camps along the line.
At each of the three Dispensaries, Kowloon Chai, Shatin and Taipo Kau, a Chinese dresser has been on duty day and night and from each Dispensary an Indian Foreman has made a daily round of coolie quarters on his section, issuing quinine, etc., to those in need and bringing in or reporting cases requiring medical attendance.
Quinine pills were issued daily to coolies whenever practicable during the months of June, July, August, September and October. As the population is such a shifting one, it was impossible to carry out the regular issuing of quinine with any degree of thoroughness.