Madang’s New Hospital
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Is Bigger and Better
Queensland (Australia) news papers in June made something of the fact that Madang, NG is to have a hospital "which will dwarf most of those found in Queensland country towns".
Madang's new hospital, now being built by the Brisbane firm of Barclay Brothers, who hope to com plete it by Christmas next year will consist of 75 separate buildings, and cover 15 acres. About 35 Europeans and 70 natives are on the job.
The buildings will range from
small bathroom blocks to structures 274 ft. long by 25 ft. wide and will cover about 150,000 sq. ft. All will have 12 ft. high walls.
There will be a medical school, native and European wards and staff quarters. Isolation wards, a mental block, operating theatres, x-ray rooms, nurses and matron’s quarters, separate single and married native staff quarters, laundries and bathrooms.
All buildings will be timber framed, and all roofs, ventilators, and wall louvre blades will be of cement.
The roofs, which are being supplied by the Brisbane firm of James Hardie and Coy., will total 19,000 square yards of corrugated asbestoscement sheets.