The Chairman read a report by the" Commissioner of Public cal. making" special reference to a provyosal therein that some arrangement ke'made whereby the Country Hosptand the General Hospital Became thutually "complementary. He also tinphiasized the point made by the Commissioner, that though. the Gene fal Hlosptal's needs were great, the fospilae™ belonging' Yo the. Council were relatively in i far Worse. Posl-Ean, The Commissioner stated that three occasions the Health Depart-get had. borne the strain a providing land for hospital "pur-hate and hence ad had tit Stier. desirable expansions) onl
ints, as a remit, not only had the rposes, and placed under" gener seeing trid appropriate to ober
hospitals remained' ina. aiapidated Slate, but the department had also een' credited with spending large Sums of money, none of which had invarly Way. benefited the "depart. ment, whereas the deprivation of these monies. had resulted in its being extremely out of date in certain important mallers, The Chait-fran endorsed. this opinion, parl= ularly in regard to the. condition the Chinese Isolation Hospital pre~ finises, which, he slated, were mest pitals, The Chairman noted that the 'Treasurer and Controller was not in. favour of the General Hospital being transferred to the "Island" site, the ultimate disposal of which, he sisted, had already been dealt' with by the Council In amplification of this point, members were informed that at ime it was proposed that the land" site be used for the Western Fever Hospital. but that a more sultable. site' was later decided on at Kiaochow Road. 'The land in' Kiaochow Road was bought on the understanding that the "Island" site would eventually be sold by the Council, and it was now merely: waiting a favourable movement of the land market, 'The Commissioner of Public Health observed that if the Council erranged for the General Hospital to be rebuilt on the "Island' site It would automatically take over the land on which the old buildings now' stood, which was much the more valuable of the two sites,
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