Q 30
PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY.
The following is a summary of the works carried out under this vote:
HONG KONG.
BUILDINGS.
101. New Government Civil Hospital.-This work consists of the erection of a New Government Civil Hospital-including the necessary quarters-on an open site at Pokfulam. The scheme comprises the following buildings:
Main Hospital Block. This building accommodates on the lower ground floor service rooms and stores; on the ground floor consulting rooms, offices, X Ray Department, kitchens, quarters for 6 unmarried Medical Officers, and a lecture wing for the use of the University students; on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors 500 beds for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class patients, with ward kitchens, operating and delivery units, duty rooms, lavatories, and on the roof a solarium.
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Staff Quarters. Accommodation is provided for a female Nursing Staff totalling 168, subdivided into 42 Matrons and Sisters and 126 Nurses and Probationers. The plans provide for the common rooms on the ground floor and there are quarters at the rear for 72 domestic servants of the nursing staff. A pair of semi-detached houses is planned for the European Medical Officers in Charge of the Hospital, and a block of 6 flats for married Chinese Medical Officers. A block of 6 flats will be provided for married European Subordinate officers. Accommodation for Dressers and Servants-136 unmarried men, 37 unmarried women, and 9 married men-will be provided in a detached Servants' Quarters Block.
Students' Hostel. Accommodation is provided for 26 medical students in a detached Students' Hostel Block of three storeys, containing common rooms on the Ground Floor and bedrooms on the two upper floors.
A Contract for the Site Formation was let to Messrs. Sang Lee & Co. for $168,906.60 on 6th April and satisfactory progress was made with the excavation and filling of the site and the construction of retaining walls.
About 750 feet of the water conduit from Pokfulam Reservoir to West Point Filters was re-aligned inside the hospital area where it interfered with the layout, and the new portion of the conduit has been constructed in reinforced concrete.
1933 Expenditure
$63,989.84