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7. The Government Tuberculosis Service operates full-time and part-time
clinics. All diagnosis and treatment is free.
Other Services
8. There is a district midwifery service with 29 centres and free
maternal and child care is offered at 31 centres.
9. The School Health Service was revised in 1964 and now provides
medical examination and treatment at a per capita fee shared equally
by participants and by the Government.
B. Housing
10. The Government of Hong Kong had become by the end of 1966 the direct
landlord of over 903,000 or 25% of the population. Private enterprise has
provided new accommodation for about 830,000 people during the past ten
years.
11. The Government's project for the settlement of squatters and
refugees in large re-settlement estates is probably the greatest
single re-housing operation that has taken place in Asia since the war.
Nearly 830,000 people have been provided with new homes since the
programme started in 1954, at a cost of almost £34 million.
In spite
of these efforts, however, there are still many people to be re-housed,
and plans exist to bring the resettlement population to 1.6 million by
1971.
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In addition the Government provides finance, in the form of low
interest loans, to non-profit making organisations such as the
Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Housing Society to cater for persons
earning between $400 $900 a month. Almost 224,000 people have been
housed in this way and it is planned to provide accommodation for a
further 190,000 by 1971.
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