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c) The number of hospital beds to be increased from 16,850 or 4.01 per 1,000 population at the beginning of '74 to 21,500 or 4.5 per 1,000 by '80, with at least a similar rate of increase thereafter. The clinical programme to include heavy emphasis on free family planning services.
d) Expenditure on social welfare (i.e. cash payments of various sorts and community- building and services for the handicapped) has increased from $50.7 M in '71/72 to $406.8 M in '76/77. It will certainly rise further, but a review of the direction and form of all social welfare expenditure is about to be under- taken.
e) The strength of the regular Police Force to be increased from 12,200 at the beginning of '73 to 16,900 in the coming financial year (or to 20,000 if civilian personnel are included). Its organisation and relations with the public have been drastically changed. A review of the future establishment will be completed this year.
f) An Independent Commission Against Corruption has been established which will reach its full strength of just under 1,000 in the coming financial year (at a cost of $37.7 M per annum). It has made a good start, and netted some big fish.
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g) Communications: miles of new road (including 3 miles of tunnel), 69 flyovers and a mass transit underground railway will have been constructed.
h) Amenities and a service to cater for organised recreation for young people and the general public are being established on a Colony-wide scale.