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large and successful training school for nurses is also attached to the Kowloon Hospital.
It has been stated that there are two Mental Hospitals. While this is a fact, it is also somewhat misleading as the position is that the old Mental Hospital, housed in out-of- date and most inadequate accommodation, is due to be given up and a new modern institution is being constructed in stages in the New Territories to replace it. At the moment the old hospital is still in use and as busy as ever-while the first stage of the new hospital (the wards for chronic cases) has been completed and is now occupied. As a result, 120 new beds have been provided but the need for the com- pletion of the new project remains pressing. At the end of the year construction work on the second stage (380 beds) was just beginning.
The two Maternity Hospitals, both on the Island, differ dramatically. One, the Eastern Maternity Hospital, is a small but very popular and busy institution of 24 beds located in premises which are a relic of former times. The other, the Tsan Yuk Hospital, has 200 beds and is most_modern in both planning and equipment. It is the main training centre for medical students in obstetrics and is also a leading school for midwives!"
The other large Government hospital is at Lai Chi Kok, on the outskirts of Kowloon. This is an institution of 476 beds, accommodated in premises that have had to be adapted for the purpose. Of the beds, 176 are for cases of tuberculosis, 120 for infectious diseases, and the remainder for convales- cent and long-term cases. This arrangement is possible only through the fact that the various buildings are well separated from one another. Since the hospital is comparatively near to Kowloon Hospital the availability of its convalescent beds allows many patients to be removed from the latter institu- tion at an early stage in convalescence and thus facilitates a much quicker turnover. The long-term cases are largely