Hokkien dialect
Built in 1882, the Singapore General Hospital used to occupy the site of a Sepoy Camp ("Sepoy" is from the Hindi "Sipahi" for "Indian troops") of the British East India Company. As a result, the hospital grounds is known to the Chinese to this day as "sipai poh", meaning "Sepoy plain" in the Hokkien dialect. Located nearby was the Outram Prison (now demolished), which was the site of the public executions of the 1915 Singapore Mutiny.