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"At the top of the main staircases of the north and south wings are tanks each holding 25,000 gallons of water for storage purposes or in case of fire.
"The administrative block, which as has been stated is situated conveniently between the two wings already dealt with in detail, is an example of modernity in plan and fittings. It consists of the following departments: The Principal Medical Officer's office and clinical laboratory, the clerk's office, dispensary, waiting room, matron's room and telephone exchange on the front half of the ground floor; the R.A.M.C. canteen, A.C.C's room, reading room and Quarter-master's office on the back half of the ground floor.
"On the first floor, in front, are the anaesthetic room, operating room, Roentgen ray and dark room, officer's board room, laboratory and medical officers' duty room.... The back portion of the first floor consists of two large rooms, one a reading, the other a dining room for convalescents.
"All the culinary arrangements, which are of a very elaborate character, are on the second floor of the back portion. There is a large restaurant cooking range the first we learn, to be fixed in this Colony - a grill, steam carving table, steam heating closets, steam tea infusers, and three steam jacketed pans for water boiling. There is a basement in this block where the boiler house is situated for purposes of steam heating by radiators in the cold weather:
"Regarding the transportation of patients from the lower levels to the hospital, there is a talk of a cable car like that in use at Mount Parker for the Taikoo employees. (Leading to) their former sanatorium). The matter is undecided yet, but, as coolie transportation is so cheap in this Colony, and as there is a road, constructed in 1894, running from Wellington Barracks to the site on which the new hospital stands, it is very likely that the proposal will be shelved. (It was).
"The hospital has cost a nice little sum to construct apart from cost of site. The original tender for the work of construction was $565,000 by Chan Wan and Chan Loong, contractors. The various alterations to the plans, have, however, cheapened the work considerably.
"The hospital, which has been built under the supervision of Major Brookes, R.E., is a credit to the Colony, its designers, and builders, and we could wish that some of our local institutions were as up-to-date as this War Office product."
In the course of the recent article referring to the view of Hongkong harbour and city from the Naval Hospital hill, it was mentioned that the scene was one drawn by Mr. Bruce in 1846 from the garden of Chief Justice Hulme. A full account of this important official's connexion with the Colony is on record, and will be summarised here, as worthy of extensive reference.
The Hon. John Walter Hulme was the first Chief Justice appointed to the Colony, and arrived with a batch of senior Government officials aboard H.M.S. Spiteful, which had picked them up at Bombay. They reached Hongkong on May 7, 1844, and included a member of the Legislative Council in the following month. He had been called to the Bar from the Middle Temple, and was an associate of the
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"At the top of the main staircases of the north and south wings are tanks each holding 25,000 gallons of water for storage purposes or in case of fire.
"The administrative block, which as has been stated is situated conveniently between the two wings already dealt with in detail, is an example of modernity in plan and fittings. It consists of the following departments: The Principal Medical Officer's office and clinical laboratory, the clerk's office, dispensary, waiting room, matron's room and telephone exchange on the front half of the ground floor; the R.A.M.C. canteen, A.C.C's room,
reading room and Quarter-master's office on the back half of the ground floor.
"On the first floor, in front, are the anaesthetic room, operating room, Roentgen ray and dark room, officer's board room, laboratory and medical officers' duty room.... The back portion of the first floor consists of two large rooms, one a reading, the other a dining room for convalscents.
"All the culinary arrangements, which are of a very elaborate character, are on the second floor of the back portion. There is a large restaurant cooking range the first we learn, to be fixed in this Colony - a grill, steam carving table, steam heating closets, steam tea infusers, and three steam jacketed pans for water boilding. There is a basement in this block where the boiler house is situated for purposes of steam heating by radiators in the cold weather:
"Regarding the transportation of patients from the lower levels to the hospital, there is a talk of a cable car like that in use at Mount Parker for the Taikoo employees. (Leading to) their former sanatorium). The matter is undecided yet, but, as coolie transportation is so cheap in this Colony, and as there is a road, constructed in 1894, running from Wellington Barracks to the site on which the new hospital stands, it is very likely that the proposal will be shelved. (It was).
"The hospital has cost a nice little sum to construct apart from cost of site. The original tender for the work of construction was $565,000 by Chan Wan and Chan Loong, contractors. The various alterations to the plans, have, however, cheapened the work considerably.
"The hospital, which has been built under the supervision of Major Brookes, R.E., is a credit to the Colony, its designers. and builders, and we could wish that some of our local isntitutions were as up-to-date as this War Office product."
In the course of the recent article reterring to the view of Hongkong harbour and city from the Naval Hospital hill, it was mentioned that the scene was one drawn by Mr. Bruce in 1846 from the garden of Chief Justice Hulme. A full account of this important official's connexion with the Colony is on record, and will be summarised here, as worthy of extensive reference.
The Hon. John Walter Hulme was the first Chief Justice appointed to the Colony, and arrived with a batch of senior Government officials aboard H.M.S. Spiteful, which had picked them up at Bombay. They reached Hongkong on May 7, 1844, and included a member of the Legislative Council in the following month. He had been called to the Bar from the Middle temple, and was an associate of the
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