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Wednesday, November 15, 1972

NEW HOSPITAL LAUNDRY TO BE HANDED OVER

The newly completed hospitals laundry in Chai Wan, which is costing

some $8.4 million, will be officially handed over to the Medical and Health

Department on Thursday (November 16).

In a brief ceremony on the site Mr. C.R.J. Donnithorne, the Director

of Building Development, will hand over the building to Dr. G.H. Choa,

Director of Medical and Health Services.

The two-storey factory-type laundry building, the first of its type

It will be in Hong Kong, has a total floor area of about 40,500 square feet.

able to handle about one million pounds of hospital laundry a month.

The upper floor will house the laundry proper, the linen exchange, and

administrative offices, and the ground floor will accommodate a boiler plant,

store rooms and staff facilities.

to the upper floor via a slipway.

Cars and trucks will carry laundry directly

A spokesman for the Public Works Department said the layout of the

work area in the building was based on a full study of "work flow" principles

as applied to laundries, and particular attention had been given to the problem

of heat disposal.

The roof over the work areas had been specially designed for efficient

natural lighting conditions, and a proper dispersion of heat associated with

largescale laundry installations."

Note to Editors:

You are invited to send a reporter and photographer to cover the handing over ceremony which will take place at 3.30 p.m. on Thursday. The laundry is in Chai Wan Road near its junction with Tytam Road.

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