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6 items (enclosures to letter from Governor A E Havelock, 5 August 1890) extracted...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/643
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This record is about the 6 items (enclosures to letter from Governor A E Havelock, 5 August 1890) extracted... dating from 1880-[1890] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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MFQ 1/643
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1880-[1890]
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6 items (enclosures to letter from Governor A E Havelock, 5 August 1890) extracted from CO 54/588. Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). 6 plans of hospitals. (1) 'Civil hospital. Vavonia [now spelled Vavuniya] Vilan Kulam': plan of the dispensary, surgery and wards. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet. [Drawn] by W H Hawkes, Provincial Engineer, Jaffna, 5 November 1889. Initialled: C R. (2) 'Maskeleya [Maskeliya] aid hospital': plan of the wards, dispensary, dead house and medical officer's quarters. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet. Traced and examined by the Public Works Department, Colombo, December 188[8]. Signed: F Vine, Provincial Engineer, Kandy, 5 December 1888. (3) 'Kayawanella [Kurunegala] hospital': plan of the wards and dead house. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 33 feet. [Drawn by] J L Hendrie, District Engineer, 12 October 1888; traced and examined by the Public Works Department, Colombo, December 1889. (4) 'Civil hospital Batticaloa': plan of the wards, dead house and latrines. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 33 feet. (5) 'Civil hospital Nuwara Eliya': plan of the cholera hospital, smallpox hospital and surgery. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet. [Drawn by the] Public Works Department, Nuwara Eliya, October 1880. Initialled: C R. (6) 'Lunatic Asylum, Jawatte Colombo': general plan. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 60 feet. Traced and examined by the Public Works Department, Colombo, December 1889. Signed: A W Taffs, [District Engineer]. Dimensions: (1) 34 cm x 50 cm; (2-3) each 34 cm x 41 cm; (4) 35 cm x 21 cm; (5) 34 cm x 53 cm; (6) 34 cm x 56 cm. Originally illustrating a report on the hospitals and asylums of Ceylon, by W R Kymsey, Principal Civil Medical Officer and I[nspector] G[eneral] of hospitals, 19 April 1890.
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For item numbered (7) extracted from CO 54/588, see MR 1/2034
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English
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Open Document, Open Description
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