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CHAPTER III (F) and (G).

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The Colonial Government have, however, now under construction at Tytam Tuk works which will increase the supply available on the Island, for tiding over the dry season, from 741,000,000 to 935,000,000 gallons. A reservoir to store 350,000,000 is also under construction at Kowloon.

(iii.) Barracks.

16. No special arrangements are required for housing of troops in barracks. When distributed for defence, the majority of the garrison will be accommodated under canvas or in mat-sheds, the barracks in cantonments being guarded by the two

The Coolie Corps will be housed as described above.

reserves.

(G.)—Action by Principal Medical Officer.

1. The P.M.O. will at once arrange for the establishment of a dressing-station with the headquarters of each of the six Sections, and for the distribution to Sections of the officers and men of the R A.M.C. according to Tables B, G (i), & (ii), and G (iv), and of the medical and surgical equipment in Table G (i). He will then proceed to organize base hospitals as in Table G (iv), and to arrange for the assistance of the civil practitioners.

2. The existing military hospitals [vide Table G (iv)] would be supplemented by base hospitals in Victoria and Kowloon, the former in the three lower blocks of Victoria Barracks, and the latter in the southern blocks of the Whitfield Barracks, vacated by the companies on section duty. Victoria Barracks will be equipped with 15 beds for officers, 92 for British soldiers, and 25 for Asiatic soldiers; total, 132 beds. The Kowloon base hospital will be equipped with 125 beds exclusively for Asiatics. The Government Civil Hospital will be utilized for the sick and wounded of the Chinese Coolie Corps.

3. The medical care of the sick will be carried on, as at present, by the R.A.M.C. and I.M.S., who will proceed to their dressing stations with the troops of the Sections to which they have been detailed. When this takes place, the civil medical practitioners above referred to will assist in looking after the sick and wounded in the base hospitals.

4. A sufficient stock of medicines, medical appliances, &c., exists in the command for the sick and wounded estimated for.

5. On the general base hospitals being established, the wounded from the dressing stations would be transferred to them, and the ordinary sick would, as in peace time, be sent to the station hospitals.

6. As the regimental stretcher-bearers would only be available for carrying the wounded out of action, dhoolies and coolie-bearers are provided in Table G (iv) for the longer transport, but would only be demanded as required.

7. In the event of one or more Sections being reinforced from other Sections, or from the Reserve, to meet a threatened formidable attack, special arrangements will at once be made by the P.M.O. for supplementing the medical and surgical equipment in that Section.

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