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The new building from Dundas Street.

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Barracks adjoining the Invalids' Home will complete the whole impressive project, which will, as H.E. pointed "open up better opportunities than now exist for the Kwong Wah Hospital to provide higher standards

and of professional

humanitarian service to the people of Hongkong.

In his first general report on the proposed new scheme Mr. Cumine gave the cost of the building as $20,170,000. Equipment and furnish- ing was valued at approximately another $5,000,000.

Details of the various sections were as follow:

Main Hospital, 12 storeys; Out- patients' Department, 2 storeys; Sis- ters' and Nurses' Hostel (for 295 per- The phasing of this work will per- the X-ray Section, the Matron's Of sons), 7 storeys; Nursing School (8 mit a certain easing of the financial fice, the Doctors' Quarters and kit- classrooms), 2 storeys; Senior Staff burden by spreading the task of rais- chen, the garages and the old Out- Quarters (24 flats), 8 storeys. Staff ing the necessary money for the patients' Department at the corner Barracks (297 persons), 3 storeys; and construction over a considerable of Dundas and Kwong Wah Streets. Workshops and Herbalists' Out- period. For example the initial phase, In their place will rise the new patients' Department, one storey. The which began on July 14th when H.E.

the Governor, Sir Robert Black, laid the foundation stone, is to cost $6,500,000. This phase, it is hoped, will be finished during the present Directors' term of office, and as early as June last a start was made on fund-raising with a charity concert at the H.K. Football Club stadium which netted over $500,000 towards the work. The public support the Tung Wah Group's organization so wholeheartedly that succeeding drives are certain to be equally successful.

Phase One will consist of the erec- tion of a Nursing School on the site of the former Government Disinfect- ing Station, and the erection of what will become the lower part of the East Wing of the future main hos-

pital building. This portion includes Medical

Photograph of the site of the existing hospital from Waterloo Road showing the Nurses' Quarters in the centre foreground. Staff Quarters, the North Mortuary Services will undergo altera- reception facilities and two floors Wing of the main building, the new tion and the Great Hall will remain containing the very important Out- garages, workshops and Herbal as it now is. The total bed strength

will be 1,262.

patients' Department, so

Department, so this very Clinic.

Since the new taller buildings will make much more economic use of the

valuable service of the Hospital will In Phase Four the old Outpatients' be the first to be rehoused. At the Clinic and Private Ward will be de- same time the central entrance of the molished, and the Infants' T.B.M., future 12-storey Main Block and part Kwan and Pui wards will also go land it will be possible to return to of its central stack will be built. leaving only the Kitchen Staff Quar- Government 99,000 sq. ft. at the Pitt

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of land that the new main building

Phase Two will involve demolish- ters, Invalids' Home and Great Hall Street end of the hospital site in ex- ing the old Maternity and Receiving of the former buildings still standing. change for 54,200 sq. ft. of new buildings which were in the Pitt Addition of the West Wing to the new ground granted by Government Street comer of the site. The new main hospital building will complete the southern side. It is on this piece Nurses' Quarters will be added to the that structure. already completed Nursing School, The Final Phase will leave, with will stand, presenting an imposing and the upper floors built on to the the removal of the Kitchen Staff Quar- facade to Waterloo Road East Wing and Central Stack.

ters, only the Great Hall and Invalids' in our illustration. Ample room Phase Three will see the end of Home out of all the old Kwong Wah will be available in front of the hos existing Ning and Infants' Wards, buildings. Erection of the new Staff pital for parking purposes.

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