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block which will contain quarters for the Tutor Sisters. Not only does this connecting link serve to unite the two blocks of the building, but it also covers the passageway leading to the main quarters. Directly opening off this covered way is the car park,

two sections.

By lowering the ceilings of the cor- ridors in the main block, the ar-

The prospect of having to provide steeply fom the south-west up to the resident posts for approximately 50 north-east, and is very narrow in the new graduates each year in Hong transverse direction. Kong raises a great many problems.

The new building has been plan- the most urgent of which appears to be that of accommodation. There has ned in such a way as to avoid ex- cessive site formation and to re- been a grave shortage for many years of resident accommodation in tain as far as posssible the existing which thus lies centrally between the floral terraces. That part of the the Queen Mary Hospital. At present there are seven rooms set aside for building overlooking the road to the south-west will be three storeys high, House Officers, rooms which

Three day rooms will be provided the lowest floor of which will contain at the rear of the main block, easily originally single rooms but which now must always accommodate two. the dining room, the sitting room, the accessible to it, but sufficiently far

office and various service rooms: the removed

to provide somewhere The number of residents to be ap- upper two floors of this section, cover- quiet for the sisters during their off- pointed to the Queen Mary Hospital ing a much smaller area, will provide duty hours. in future will be no less than 24 per accommodation for the matron and annum. The time has therefore the assistant matron. come for the permanent proviston The main block of quarters will be chitects have been able to provide for this additional staff. Temporary located at the north-east end of the for adequate cross-ventilation to all measures such as using a portion of site and will be nine storeys high. living rooms and bedrooms, the hospital at present being used The lower three storeys of this block should prove a great boon during the for other purposes or the renting of will contain quarters for the Senior hot summer months. outside premises in the near vicinity Sisters; three being accommodated on would be very unsatisfactory and in each floor except on the lowest floor. a few years' time the same problem where a large area has been left for planning is the provision of individual would have to be faced again.

the storage of boxes and trunks. balconies for each room in the taller Each Senior Sister will have her own block; all the balconies face directly sitting room, bedroom, bathroom and south, and consequently the partition all the same in layout and are in- angled as to provide shade from the kitchenette. The six upper floors are walls between them have been tended for the Junior Sisters; each strong western sun and at the same catch the prevailing south floor will contain six bedrooms, three time bathrooms and 4 communal kit- winds. chenette. A lift will serve all the floors of the main block.

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Although not intended as a solution to this problem, the proposed sisters' quarters at Queen Mary Hos- pital will certainly ease the acute ac- commodation problem and if it does not release beds for extra patients it will allow more adequate quarters to be given to the existing staff or provide accommodation for new help.

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Another interesting feature in the

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The contract is going out to tender very shortly; construction is expect- ed to start in January 1954 and to take about nine months. The ar- chitects are Messrs. Palmer and

The lowest floor of the main block The quarters will be built just to is on the same level as the upper floor the east of the main hospital build- of the smaller block, and is linked to ing at Pokfulam. The site rises it at this level by a single storey Turner.

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