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1. Queen Mary and Government Civil Hospitals.
The outstanding event in the year as regards improved hospital facilities was the opening of the Queen Mary Hospital which replaced the old Government Civil Hospital built in 1874 and which was closed on the 30th of June, 1937.
The ceremony was performed by His Excellency Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., at that time Governor and Commander-in-Chief, on the 13th of April, 1937.
Situated on the south side of the Island in open surroundings 500 feet above sea level, the new hospital commands an uninterrupted view of the sea and islands to the south and west.
The hospital was designed by the officers of the Public Works Department in consultation with the Medical Department and cost nearly four million dollars (Hong Kong) or a quarter of a million pounds sterling (about £460 per bed).
It may be said to embody all the latest improvements in hospital construction. The buildings are planned on the vertical system with lifts to all seven floors.
Excellent lighting and ventilation facilities are afforded by the grouping of the five wings of the hospital in the form of an "H". The main entrance is in the centre of the building with a separate entrance on the north side for patients arriving by ambulance and a service entrance on the south side.
The roof is flat and so designed to permit of its use as an open-air ward for patients suffering from tuberculosis and other conditions which benefit from sunlight and fresh air.
The main building and nursing staff quarters are of steel frame construction and quietness has been studied, the walls and floors being of sound-resisting material.
The hospital has accommodation for a total of 546 beds, of which thirty-six are cots and thirty-two for maternity cases. An Isolation Wing consists of nine small wards with room for twenty-two cases.
About one quarter of the beds are allotted to the three clinical units of the Hong Kong University, namely the Medical, Surgical and Gynaecological and Obstetrical Units.
These beds are under the direct control of the Clinical Professors whose reports are contained in Section IX, Scientific, to this Report. The first patients were admitted from the Victoria Hospital on the 1st of May, 1937, and during the remainder of the month and in June all the patients were transferred to the new hospital from the old Government Civil Hospital.
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1.-Queen Mary and Government Civil Hospitals.
The outstanding event in the year as regards improved hospital facilities was the opening of the Queen Mary Hospital which replaced the old Government Civil Hospital built in 1874 and which was closed on the 30th of June, 1937.
The ceremony was performed by His Excellency Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., at that time Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief, on the 13th of April, 1937.
Situated on the south side of the Island in open surround- ings 500 feet above sea level, the new hospital commands an uninterrupted view of the sea and islands to the south and west.
The hospital was designed by the officers of the Public Works Department in consultation with the Medical Department and cost nearly four million dollars (Hong Kong) or a quarter of a million pounds sterling-(about £460 per bed).
It may be said to embody all the latest improvements in hospital construction. The buildings are planned on the vertical system with lifts to all seven floors.
Excellent lighting and ventilation facilities are afforded by the grouping of the five wings of the hospital in the form of an "H". The main entrance is in the centre of the building with a separate entrance on the north side for patients arriving by ambulance and a service entrance on the south side.
The roof is flat and so designed to permit of its use as an open air ward for patients suffering from tuberculosis and other conditions which benefit from sunlight and fresh air.
The main building and nursing staff quarters are of steel frame construction and quietness has been studied, the walls and floors being of sound-resisting material.
The hospital has accommodation for a total of 546 beds of which thirty-six are cots and thirty-two for maternity cases. An Isolation Wing consists of nine small wards with room for twenty-two cases.
About one quarter of the beds are allotted to the three clinical units of the Hong Kong University, namely the Medical, Surgical and Gynaecological and Obstetrical Units.
These beds are under the direct control of the Clinical Professors whose reports are contained in Section IX, Scientific, to this Report. The first patients were admitted from the Victoria Hospital on the 1st of May, 1937, and during the remainder of the month and in June all the patients were transferred to the new hospital from the old Government Civil Hospital.
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