The Archive · 1932

Nurses' Quarters

The sixth floor holds the operating theatre and X-ray room: in ite northern portion, The southern portion and part of the centre has roomy cubicles for the On the top floor all the space occupied by quarters for the foreign nur The root fs flat, with a 6-foot wall encircling It, and above the roof is a large water tank.

The Police and Geal Hospitals were both commenced at the same time, on January 13, to complete them. of the compound the last building necessary to fill the space within the wall under construction, this being Cell Block RS. Block PQ was completed Inat year.

'The new entrance gate will complete the Wand Koad frontage line, betwoon the south of the Indian warders' quarters and the north of the old buildings. Under the space between this gate and the gateway to the administration building ure the oil fuel tanks, Ward Road Gaol is a town of its own, with its 7,000 inhabitants, and it ix growing bigger. It is gradually being modernised and at the same time extended. It fille the greater part of two city blocks, between Ward, Chusan, Kwenming and Paoting Roads, taking in all but the northern part of this large piece of ground.

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