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由威利僡街向東望。
所謂橋，是一條建築於1841年，通往海員醫院的堤道，香港的第一宗外科手術，是於1848年在此醫院施行的。
同年，海員醫院遷往灣仔，這裡改為「國家（政府）醫院」，於1960年代，改名為「西營盤賽馬會分科診療所」。
堤道的地底，於1911年建有一地下公廁，但數年前已封閉。
Bird's Bridge (Queen's Road West), c. 1900
Looking east from Wilmer Street. The "bridge" actually was a causeway constructed in 1841, using to connect the Seaman's Hospital. In 1848, Hong Kong's first surgical operation was performed in this hospital.
The Seaman's Hospital moved to Wan Chai in the same year and the construction there had been used as the Civil Hospital. In the 1960s, the name of the Civil Hospital was changed to "Sai Ying Pun Jockey Club Polychinics". An underground toilet was built beneath the causeway in 1911 and closed a few years ago. ■鄭寶鴻 香港歷史博物館名譽顧問
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