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out to Kowloon Hospital. A police station at Mong Kok and two additional buildings at Kai Tak Airport were also completed. At Yuen Long in the New Territories a clinic and maternity home, a police station, a district branch office and a post office were com- pleted. At Sha Tin a further clinic and maternity home were built. Marine Police operational bases were completed at Tai Lam Chung and Tai Po Kau, and police posts built at Peng Chau and Plover Cove.

New buildings under construction at the end of the year included standard ambulance depots and fire stations at Shau Kei Wan, Kennedy Town, Tai Po, Morrison Hill and Nairn Road; quarters for the Preventive Service; new operating, professorial and quarters block at Queen Mary Hospital; a health centre at Yau Ma Tei; 721 police rank and file married quarters at Kennedy Town and 791 at Wong Tai Sin; Kowloon Central Post Office; Tong Fuk Prison; Tai Hang Tung Community Centre; and an extension to the Public Works Department depot at Caroline Hill.

Designs and detailed drawings or contract documents for some 70 larger schemes were also in hand at the end of the year. The major projects include a new 1,300-bed hospital at Lai Chi Kok; a new office block in the Murray Barracks area with some 200,000 square feet of working space; additional offices for police head- quarters with 128,000 square feet of working space; a training school for the Fire Services Department; a depot for the police training contingent; extensions to the Hong Kong Technical College; and additional wards at Castle Peak Mental Hospital.

DRAINAGE

All the urban areas and the newly developing townships in the New Territories have waterborne sewerage systems in various stages of development. In many of the older urban areas the sewers were constructed 50 or more years ago and are no longer adequate to serve the large blocks of flats now being erected in place of older, smaller buildings. A comprehensive survey of the sewerage systems draining into the harbour has been completed and a programme of works has begun to develop all these sewerage systems to modern standards. It is intended that all sewage, after primary treatment, should be discharged by submarine outfall into the main tidal