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which was hired temporarily

Civil Hospital

as

was consumed in

the Great Fire of 25th December last.

there was

was

no other place than the

Lock Hospital to which the patients

could

be

transferred

and some

this

4. The Colonial Surgeon consider

the

present Storpital accommodation to be wholly inadequate to even ordinary

on sudden demand

requirements and in the event of any extra ordinary he does not see

made

for

what

provision could be the accommodation of the

sick as there is not a building in the

partial alterations which were

imperatively reccpary to fit building to receive a

larger number effected.

were at once

of patients These alterations do not affect the original project but form part of, and work into, the same.

a

Supplementary vote for &$950 for this purpose was taken

On

the 1176

X

February last, vide annexed letter.

Colony

Mow

fit for

the

purposes of

Sie

urges

therefore

Civil Hospital.

the speedy completion of the proposed

Conversion

F

the buildings in acendance

with the project elaborated some time and the Surveyor General proposes

ago,

A

I first step, the erection of a Special

Lock Hospital for

od Beds for which $17,000