HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1953
has a Health Inspectorate of 145 officers and a labour force of over 4,000. Professional advice on health matters is supplied by the Deputy Director of Health Services (who is also Vice- Chairman of the Urban Council), the Senior Health Officer, and 3 Health Officers, all of whom are members of the Medical department. The Sanitary division is subdivided into eleven interrelated sections each dealing with a separate aspect of public health and sanitation.
Medical Staff. Local authorities do not, as yet, employ medical personnel, who are either in the employ of Govern- ment or
or of private organizations. The total number of registered medical practitioners is 469, but this figure almost entirely excludes doctors employed by Government as local legislation does not demand that persons so employed should be registered. The numbers of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel officially and privately employed in the Colony is detailed in Appendix XC.
Expenditure. The estimated Medical department expendi- ture for the financial year ending 31st March, 1954, totals $23,860,262.00. However, to this figure must be added a further $5,580,100, which is paid by way of subventions to voluntary organizations in the Colony which provide hospital and other public health services. These include the Anti- Tuberculosis Association and the Mission to Lepers, Hong Kong Auxiliary. The main subvention of approximately $4,000,000 is paid to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals which provides 1,219 beds in its three institutions. The combined estimated expenditure of the Medical department and the medical subventions represents approximately 8% of the Colony's total estimated revenue. Estimated capital expendi- ture for the Medical department was $3,352,000.
Recurrent expenditure incurred by the Sanitary division of the Urban Services department amounted to $13,343,242.43 during the year under review, of which $10,376,515.53 was
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