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The furniture, bedding, crockery, and other articles forming the present equipment of the Peak Hotel, will, under section 6 of the Order in Council above referred to, be taken over at the same time as the building itself by an officer of the Public Works Department, a representative of the hotel proprietors and an officer detailed by the P.C.M.O. being present. The reserve of one year's supply of drugs, &c., kept in the military medical stores, and of six months' supply to be kept in future in the Govern- ment Civil Hospital, will meet the probable military and civil requirements at the outset of war without the necessity for any special arrangements for increasing it.
4. The Mat-shed Annex and Peak Hotel Hospitals for naval patients and the military officers' wards in the Maternity Hospital will be administered by the P.C.M.O., who will keep an account of all expenditure involved for subsequent adjustment with the Admiralty and War Office.
He will furnish the Deputy Inspector-General and the Principal Medical Officer with such information as they may require for the purpose of official returns with regard to naval and military patients in the hospitals administered by him. For the same purpose naval and military medical officers will visit these hospitals.
5. For the Mat-shed Annex and Peak Hotel Hospital for naval patients the Government Civil Hospital staff and the staff of the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children will be partly available, but will have to be supplemented by the following:-
Doctors Nursing sisters Chinese attendants
Ward coolies.. Cooks
Mat-shed Annex.
Penk Hospital.
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Drs. Muller, Justi, and Harston, who have expressed themselves unconditionally as prepared to place their services at the disposal of Government for work in the hospitals in time of war, will be sent to the Mat-shed Annex and the Peak Hotel Hospitals as soon as they are ready to be occupied. It is proposed to pay them at the rate of 500 dollars per mensem. (Drs. Mitchell, Rennie, and Marriott, who have expressed themselves willing to help provided they can give time to their private practice, will, as far as their services are available, be utilized in the hospitals" under naval administration.)
It has not been considered advisable to count on the services of any of the five private nurses in the Colony, whose time is fully occupied in nursing private cases, though one or two might possibly be available in an emergency. It will therefore be necessary, pending the arrival of more nurses that may be sent from England, to get assistance from some of the seventeen ladies in the Colony who have attended ambu- lance and nursing classes, and have registered their names with the P.C.M.O. for services in the hospital in war.
The Chinese attendants, cooks, and ward coolies for the Mat-shed Annex and Peak Hotel Hospitals will be engaged at rates of 15 dollars, 17 dollars, and 9 dollars a month respectively.
For the hospitals under military administration the following local practitioners, who have agreed to serve, will be told by the P.C.M.O. to report to the P.M.O. :- Drs. Forsyth, Grone, Jordan, Azavedo, Swan, and Jehangir, who will be paid at the rate of 500 dollars per mensem.
6. The Principal Civil Medical Officer's duties with regard to naval requirements are therefore, on the request of the Senior Naval Officer, to-
(a.) Arrange for the establishment of hospitals, each for 200 beds, at the Mat-shed Annex when ready, and at the Peak Hotel when taken over.
(b.) See to the equipments of these hospitals with furniture, medical appliances,
drugs, &c.
(c.) Complete the staff by calling on private practitioners, by arranging for lady nurses, and by engaging Chinese attendants, cooks, and ward coolies.
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