The new building was designed bythe Public Works Department, and is a reinforced concrete frame: structure eight floors in height with hollow walls, faced externally with dark red facing tiles and internally rendered with plai tal plaster.
'The ground floor is occupied by' the "keltchens, food preparation room, ete. in' which are installed the most modern cooking appliances and food refrigeration plant. This! floor aleo accommodates the boiler: room with oil ficed boilers and pumps, and at the east end are the, Chinese staff quarters.
"The first is the principal, floor and is approached by a flight of] Wide steps from Great Western Road leading up to the main entrance of the building, and the entrance lounge hall from which cor-riders running east and west give excess to the sisters', staff nurses' and probationers' conimon and dining rooms, library, tea room, ete. all of which have a south aspect Gnd overlook the gardens. Immediately' adjacent to the lounge hall fare provided a visitors' waiting and cloak room and the home Sisters?
Service from the kitchens on the ground floor to the dining and tea Tooms on the first floor is obtained by food lifts to a pantry situated Detween there two rooms. The sec-and, third, fourth, fifth' and sixth floors are identical and provide accommodation for the nursing staff fu individual bedrooms with a com mon verandah overlooking the gardens and facing south.
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