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Professorial and Radiotherapy Block

ARCHITECTS DIVISION, PWD

PAUL Y. Y. LAM, ARIBA

YICK LEE & CO.

Clients Requirements

1. Professorial Suites

Lecture theatres, professors' offices, senior lecturers' and lecturers' offices. consulting rooms, laboratories, read- ing room and stores.

2. Radiotherapy

Lecture room. specialists offices. waiting hall, consulting rooms, al- moners' offices, general office, minor surgery, physicist's office and labora- tory, haematology, clinical photo- graphy, counting rooms, isotope laboratory. dispensing. hot sluice.

architects

architect in-charge

main contractor

radioactive flushing. plan rooms. plaster and mould room, isodose, simulator, maxitron treatment and cobalt 60 treatment rooms and workshop.

Site

The site selected for this building is the area in front of the old sisters* and nurses' quarters at a lower ter- race which was previously occupied by tennis courts.

The ground was made up of earth filling at 3ft. to 8ft, depth. Sub-soil was rocky and piling was unnecessary.

The ground floor of the seven-storey block is occupied by the radiotherapy of the radiological department which consists of offices, laboratory and treatment units. The radiation treat- ment centre, constructed into and under an earth embarkment with a minimum cover of 6ft. of earth was so planned to eliminate the need for an excessively thick protective wall around it. Barytis concrete, having a density of about 220 lb. per cu. ft. was used.

This department also occupies the whole of first floor of the block, where lecture room, consulting rooms, general office and specialists offices are provided.

The professorial suites, occupying the second floor and all floors above have a separate main entrance on the hospital main level facing the centre of the compound. with parking spaces in front of the building. The allocation of these floors is as fol- lows:

2nd floor

3rd floor

4th floor

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Surgery and subjects

allied

Paediatric demon- stration and medical lab.

Medicine and paedia- trics

5th floor 6th floor Midwifery and gy-

naecology

Orthopeadic surgery

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Professorial block and footbridge to existing hospital

Far East Architect & Builder September, 1967

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