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Public Works and Utilities

PUBLIC WORKS

Buildings. The number of schemes for Government building continued to increase and during the year about 150 were being designed or were already under construction. These projects covered almost every variety of departmental need.

The Sisters' and Nurses' quarters were completed at the site for the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon and the basement structure of the main hospital building was also finished by the end of the year. Work is due to start in 1961 on the superstructure of this hospital, with its various specialist departments. At Castle Peak in the New Territories, steady work went on upon the 1,000 bed Mental Hospital buildings and medical staff quarters, and was near to completion. Some of the buildings were ready to be occupied before the end of the year. A new operating theatre and building was completed at the Kowloon General Hospital, with a new central kitchen block and a staff recreation centre. Other medical buildings which were completed during the year included the large Sai Ying Pun Clinic, Sha Tau Kok Dispensary, Tong Fuk Hospital on South Lantau and an isolation unit at Lai Chi Kok Hospital.

Large scale additions were made to the Technical College Laboratories and Workshops and the Lo Fu Ngam Primary School was finished. Blake Gardens, Chai Wan and Tsuen Wan Primary Schools, each accommodating 1,080 children, and Clementi Middle School were under construction, and working drawings were being prepared for a new Teachers' Training College, four secondary schools and eight primary schools.

The construction of the City Hall continued throughout the year and, though much yet remained to be done, it was beginning to take shape as a new feature of Hong Kong's waterfront. The principal unit in this building will be the concert hall which will take a full orchestra and choir, with over 1,500 persons in the