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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. Accou- inodation for Dressers and Servants-136 unmarried men, 37 un- married women, and 9 married men-will be provided in a detach- ed Servants' Quarters Block.
Students' Hostel. Accommodation is provided for 26 medi- cal students in a detached Students' Hostel Block of three storeys, containing common rooms on the Ground Floor and bed- rooms 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 Reser- voir 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
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102. Market: Hennessy Road near Fleming Road.—It had been proposed to erect a one storey market constructed of rein- forced concrete similar to that just completed on the adjoining site, but it was decided not to proceed with the work as stalls were still vacant in that market.
Expenditure
Nil.
103. Market: Bowrington Canal.-A sketch plan was pre- pared for a market containing 24 stalls, but owing to shortage of staff it was not possible to proceed with the work.
Expenditure
Nil.
104. Market: Praya East, West End.-A sketch plan was prepared for a market containing 24 stalls, but owing to shortage of staff the work could not be undertaken during the year.
Expenditure
$299.43
105. Latrine and Bath House at junction of Hennessy Road and O'Brien Road. This is a two storey building, containing latrines on the ground floor and bath cubicles on the second floor, for men and women, with heating chamber and Caretaker's Quar- ters. A Contract was let to Messrs. Chung Lee & Co. for $12,150.00 on 9th June, and the contract was completed in December, but there were still at the end of the year a few items to be carried out departmentally before the building could be handed over to the Sanitary Department.
Expenditure
GENERAL WORKS.
$15,511.33
106. Roads. Consequent upon the erection of new buildings, kerbing and channelling operations were executed on twenty- seven roads, etc. Footpaths were paved and any necessary alterations in levels or alignment effected.
Expenditure
$33,694.35
107. Drainage :—(a) Training Nullahs.-Stream-courses were trained in culvert section at North Point, Kennedy Road and at Sookunpoo; nullah parapet walling was constructed at Shaukiwan for a length of 378 feet, and existing decking was extended at Macdonnell Road.
Expenditure
$6,925.64
(b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works.-New sewers and storm water drains to a length of 7,789 feet and varying from 42′′ to 4′′ in diameter were constructed during the year, principally at Shaukiwan, North Point, Wongneichong and on the Praya East Reclamation. The number of drain connections made was 146. Many new gullies with flat gully gratings were constructed and connected to the storm water drainage system.
Expenditure
$38,705.83
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