In lieu of news, your correspondent would beg leave to say a few words about the hospital just erected: at: this place, It will cost when complete something over two thousand dollars in gold, nearly one half of which sum went to purchase the site upon which it was deemed best to build it It consists ofa row of rooms built in good native style on the north side of our street, and consequently facing south. In this row, beginning with the east, is the gate-house, 'a sufficient imposing gateway, the waiting-room which is made more roomy by running a ps a few feet back into the court, the consulting room, and the dispensing room. Running northward, at right angles with this.row and joined to the consulting. and dispensing roonis by a small wash-room, is a small two-storey structure of neat: design which contains, downstairs a well-lighted operating. room, and upstairs a convenient room for storing spare medicines where they will be measurably free. from the deteriorating effects of the to damp. Several of the native buildings in the original place have been fitted up for wards and. assistants' rooms. 'There is also a back court which will accommodate new wards when it is found necessary to build them, Altogether, we have as neat and convenient a hospital as any in the province. 'The buildings' were erected by our physician, Dr. Chas. F. Johnson.
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