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HEALTH
Provision for the treatment of mental illness is keeping step with these advances in legislation. The Castle Peak Hospital, with 1,000 beds, was nearly complete at the end of the year, and includes one block for the voluntary treatment of drug addicts. Planning of a mental day hospital and out-patient department on Hong Kong Island is well advanced.
A well-known United Kingdom consultant psychiatrist, Dr L. T. Hilliard, visited the Colony at the request of the Government to investigate the extent of mental deficiency in Hong Kong and to advise on how to deal with it. Dr Hilliard's report was being studied in detail at the end of the year.
Health Education. Health education covers a wide field and is an integral part of the work of every branch of the Medical and Health Department, but the Maternal and Child Health Service is particularly active. The inter-departmental committee on Health Education, formed in 1959, continued to concentrate its efforts on assisting the anti-diphtheria campaign. The Health Education Select Committee of the Urban Council organized publicity campaigns throughout the urban areas on many sides of environmental hygiene, while the Industrial Health Section of the Labour Department and the Social Welfare Department have also played a very active part. Kaifong Associations_have_co- operated fully with Government in immunization campaigns and in teaching about environmental hygiene. The Women's Section of these Associations has shown keen interest in this side of public service and organized a three-months' drive on maternal and child health.
HOSPITALS
8,090 hospital beds are available for all purposes in the Colony; this figure includes maternity and nursing homes but not institu- tions of the armed forces. Of these beds, one-third are in Govern- ment hospitals and institutions, one-fifth are provided by private agencies and the rest are in Government-assisted hospitals. Apart from beds assigned to the care of the mentally ill and to the treat- ment of tuberculosis and leprosy, there are 5,291 beds for all general purposes, including maternity. This gives a ratio of 1.77 beds to each thousand of the estimated population. These figures give the normal capacities of the various hospitals, but in many