Health Body Approves of Recommendations The Health Committee. of the SIM.C, hasbeen giving con ation to the recommendations the "Hospital Commission, whose report was published on August 2 3942, and upon its advice the Com il, has approved, subject to rote euge to the Finance Committee, the inclusion In the 1983 Budget of the!
Fever Hospital is. 150,000; Mental Hloomital mis. 0,000; Laundes Is. 10,000, The Commission in dealing, with Iuolation. Hospital accommodation recommended that a. hospital tected on the "Island Site" (Great 'Western, Tifeng and Bubbling Well Yoads) and that st be known as the Western Fever Hospital, admitting patients of any nationality prepared conform, to. hospital regulations Forther, the Commission recom mended' that this hospital should Contain: approximately 160 beds, some apportioned to minor as. well fs, major infectious diseases; and that in addition to paying beds, should have. certain' Zree beds' in accordance with the. necessities of the population served.
'The Health Committee in con: sidering' the recommendations of the Hospital Commission decided to advise the Council to include in the 3038 Budget provision, for the move urgent proposals, The erection of the Western Fever "Hospital war Fogarded as urgently necessary and cordingly the Committee recom mended that an appropriation of Tls. 160,000, representing a portion of "the cost, be included in the Budget.
'The Hospital Commission—appointed a committee to enquire into the Mental Hospital accommodation, and this committee recommended that a new Mental Hospital be est~ ablished with a total of 100 to' 150 Beds to take temporary care acute cases,: Further, the committee Stated that this hospital should be: so planned that its capacity could conveniently be doubled at a future' date, The committee also recorded: that it would be expedient to unity this work in a single hospital for: Both foreign. and Chinese patients, but if possible with separate units.
The Health Committee, after discussing conditions at the present Mental Ward and the propos the Commission for a Mental He pital, was strongly of opinion that the erection: of the new Mental Hospital should be commenced as soon as the site therefore became available. inthe Intter part of, 1933, and accordingly recommended that an. appropriation of Tis, 60,000, Yepresenting a portion of the cost, be included in the 1938 Budget and marked as urgent. Committee alto regarded the erection of a modern laundry in the compound of the Isolation Hospital_as_ desirable Inthe interests of efficiency and economy. Subject to further consideration as to the type of equipment to be installed in the maundy it-was recommended that an appro priation of Tls. 10,000, representing, portion of the cost, be i the 1993 Budget urgent,
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