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ward and a store; doors from the two small wards open to a common sluice room. A large covered porch will be located between the isolation ward and the main hospital building. A second set of doors from the main casualty ward to the corridor will give convenient access to the two smaller wards.
From the main hall, there will be a staircase leading to the quarters on the upper floors: however, to avoid the necessity of the residents from having to go
go through the casualty department, an external door opens directly onto the ground floor landing of this staircase.
Accommodation to be provided on the first floor includes a living room. reading room and study room, along the front of which three rooms there is a verandah: a dining room with kitchen adjoining. furniture store. lavatories, and servants' rooms, lava- tories and kitchens. The remainder of this floor will be occupied by a drying area on the flat roof. It is intended that the main rooms on this floor will be used communally by the housemen.
The second, third and fourth floors will be occupied entirely by the house officers' quarters. The layout of these three floors will be similar, each containing nine bedrooms, a store for trunks and suitcases, a room for washing and ironing, bath- rooms and lavatories, All of the bedrooms will have verandahs and each will be fitted with a wash-basin and a built-in wardrobe.
Maternity Hospital, and the new ward. 42'-0" by 30'-0", will contain
An air-conditioning plant room 1200-bed Kowloon Hospital.
five curtained treatment cubicles and will be located on the flat roof over will be fully equipped with sinks, the first floor servants' quarters, with sterilizers and all other necessary access to it from this roof by means the sisters' room with adjoining linen
From this room equipment.
open of a wrought iron cat ladder.
store and lavatory, and the two A secondary staircase will be small air-conditioned operating thea- located at the opposite end of the tres. Opening off the emergency and building to the main staircase, and waiting room are lavatories and store.
The new extension to Queen Mary Hospital will be situated at the north- western end of the main hospital building. It will be a five-storeyed structure, attached to the main building and there will be horizontal access between the two buildings at
each floor level.
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this will connect the floors from the first to the fourth inclusive. It is from the landings of this staircase that access will be obtained to the main building.
The whole of the ground floor will be occupied by the casualty depart- An office will be located in the ment. Entrance will be from a main hall, and from the latter a cor- covered ambulance porch into the ridor will extend the length of the
The new wing, which is expected main hall, from which direct access new wing to a covered ramp leading to be completed in about seven may be had to the main casualty down to the main building. Opening mcnths, was designed by the Archi- ward and to the emergency and off this corridor are a doctors' room, tectural Office of the Public Works waiting room. The main casualty a small casualty ward, an isolation Department.
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