advanced for work on the detailed structural design to begin. Pre-liminary schemes were received for the medical gas installation, for the kitchen equipment and the laundry equipment. A firm of consulting engineers commenced the design of the steam pipe work. Preliminary work started on the site, raising the level, moving an existing water main and culverting a nullah, and work commenced on the demolition of existing buildings and levelling the site to prepare for piling.
Castle Peak Hospital
55. By the end of the year a contract for piling had been let, architectural and structural drawings approached completion and bills of quantities were being prepared.
Shek Kip Mei Polyclinic
56. This general maternity and chest clinic was completed in November.
Alterations to Kowloon Chest Clinic
57. Alterations to this chest clinic were carried out between December and March. The work consisted of enlarging the waiting room and film store and building a new dispensary and X-ray room.
New Ward Block, Kowloon Hospital
58. A new two-storey ward block at the existing Kowloon Hospital was completed in October. The accommodation provided a general ward of thirty-six beds in six bays on the ground floor and six four-bed wards on the first floor together with all ancillary rooms, such as lavatories and duty rooms.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Western Police Station—Married Officers' Quarters
59. This building containing sixteen three or four-roomed flats was handed over in May. Its construction completed the scheme for the replacement of the old Western Police Station, the new police station and a block containing 112 rank and file married quarters having been completed previously.
Rank and File Quarters, Arsenal Yard
60. This scheme, the second stage of building on the Arsenal Yard site, is fully described in the 1955/56 Report.
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advanced for work on the detailed structural design to begin. Pre- liminary schemes were received for the medical gas installation, for the kitchen equipment and the laundry equipment. A firm of consulting engineers commenced the design of the steam pipe work. Preliminary work started on the site, raising the level, moving an existing water main and culverting a nullah, and work commenced on the demolition of existing buildings and levelling the site to prepare for piling.
Castle Peak Hospital
55. By the end of the year a contract for piling had been let, architectural and structural drawings approached completion and bills of quantities were being prepared.
Shek Kip Mei Polyclinic
56. This general maternity and chest clinic was completed in November.
Alterations to Kowloon Chest Clinic
57. Alterations to this chest clinic were carried out between December and March. The work consisted of enlarging the waiting room and film store and building a new dispensary and X-ray room.
New Ward Block, Kowloon Hospital
58. A new two-storey ward block at the existing Kowloon Hospital was completed in October. The accommodation provided a general ward of thirty-six beds in six bays on the ground floor and six four-bed wards on the first floor together with all ancillary rooms, such as lavatories and duty rooms.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Western Police Station—Married Officers' Quarters
59. This building containing sixteen three or four roomed flats was handed over in May. Its construction completed the scheme for the replacement of the old Western Police Station, the new police station and a block containing 112 rank and file married quarters having been completed previously.
Rank and File Quarters, Arsenal Yard
60.
This scheme, the second stage of building on the Arsenal Yard site, is fully described in the 1955/56 Report.
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