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Estimate for Barrack Works for accommodating increased Gurrison, and for some other urgent services.
Service.
Estimate. Estimate.
Order of Precedence.
Barracks for Hong Kong Regiment at Kowloon, exclu-
sive of European Officers' quarters,
£65,700
$414,947 | In hand.
Hospital to replace existing Hospital ship "Meance Hospital for Asiatics, Kowloon,
37,200
234,947
1
11,000
69,474
2
Barracks at Kowloon for 2 Officers, 134 men, Europeaus, Barracks for Royal Artillery at Lyemoon,..
16,000
101,053
3
8,850
55,895 Completed.
Purchase of Lazaretto,-
3,150
19,895 Completed.
Barracks for Royal Artillery at Stonecutters' Island,
8,000
50,526 In band.
Quarters for increased number of Warrant Officers (3),
2,300
14,526
4
Quarters for increased number of staff-sergeants, ser-
5 for one half & 8
21,600
geants and married men (36),
136,421
for the 2nd half.
Quarters for Quarter-Master, Infantry,
1,500
9,474
9
Increase of Royal Engineers serjeants' mess,...
1,500
9,474
10
Serjeants' mess and recreation room, Victoria Barracks, Gymnasium for European troops,
2,000
12,631
11
2,500
15,789
12
Bathing Pond,
1,700
10,737
13
Alterations to F Block, Queen's Road Barracks, for
Chinese Submarine Miners,
200
1,263
Alterations for library, school, &c., and to Royal
Engineers' workshops,
450
2,842 Partly completed.
Barracks for 1 Company Asiatic Artillery and Officers'
Quarters,
10,000
Training the Albany Nullah,
63,158 2,400 15,158
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196,050 1,238,210
Add th* contingencies,
15,885 100,326
Total,
211,935 1,338,536
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*Not increased on Account of the Hospital.
Extracts from a letter from the War Office to the Treasury Hong Kong 2/4690, dated 20th Dec/94.
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2. The Medical Authorities at the Station have recently made strong repre- sentations in the matter, contending that the time has now come when diseases can no longer be properly treated in such a structure, especially at sea, and in such a climate as that of Hong Kong, where the temperature and other conditions are so variable.
3. It is also necessary that separate wards should be provided for the treat- ment of infectious diseases, and for the Itch, as well as for the reception of lunatics. 4. At present, cases of small-pox, scarlet fever and diphtheria have to be treated as best they can, no official accommodation having been provided for the isolation of patients suffering from these diseases.
5. The provision of a Hospital on shore-to which special allusion is made in the 10th paragraph of the War Office letter before quoted-has therefore now become a service of pressing urgency, and Mr. Secretary CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN finds it necessary to add this to the list previously put forward.
6. Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN-having regard to the subsequent correspond- ence--has had a fresh list prepared, shewing the order of precedence which should be attached to the services. The list includes the Hospital.
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15. Of the amount to be found by the Colony it must be remembered that about 1/6th, i.e., about £1,177 annually will be for payment in sterling for stores which will probably be necessary to send out from England.
16. In regard to the mode of execution Mr. Secretary CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN would suggest that the best course would be for the Colony to provide funds for specific services to the amounts payable.
17. The services to be either executed by the War Department on behalf of the Colony, or by the Colony to the satisfaction of the representative of the Secretary of State for War.
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