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cases the actual accommodation is much higher as extra camp beds are widely used wherever the need arises. There is a table in Appendix VII detailing the distribution of hospital beds in the Colony.
Government maintains two large general hospitals for acute cases and for cases in need of specialized treatment, the Queen Mary Hospital on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Hospital in the centre of Kowloon; the former is also the Teaching Hospital for the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong. There are eight other Government hospitals: one large hospital for both long-term cases and infectious diseases; two mental hospitals; one maternity hospital; one infectious diseases hospital; one small hospital for venereal diseases; the St John Hospital on Cheung Chau Island with general, maternity and tuberculosis beds; and a small general hospital opened during the year on Lantau Island. Small hospitals are maintained in four of the Colony's prisons, and there are maternity beds for normal midwifery in certain of the Government clinics and dispensaries, mainly in the New Territories.
The Tung Wah Hospital is an entirely Chinese charitable organization. Founded ninety years ago, it operates a group of four hospitals, consisting of the Tung Wah and Tung Wah Eastern Hospitals and the Sandy Bay Infirmary on Hong Kong Island, and the Kwong Wah Hospital and Infirmary in Kowloon, and it also gives various other services to the poor and needy of Hong Kong. These hospitals are a valuable contribution to the Çolony's medical resources and are gradually being modernized. The Board of Directors is at present carrying out a plan in five stages to replace the existing Kwong Wah Hospital by a modern general hospital of 1,250 beds. By the end of the year, the second stage, a wing of 467 beds, was ready for occupation and work had begun on the third stage.
The Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association maintains the Ruttonjee Sanatorium, the Freni Memorial Convalescent Home and the Grantham Hospital. The Grantham Hospital is a non- profit-making institution which provides for fee-paying patients. Because of the need for more free tuberculosis beds, Government has assumed responsibility for 444 of the hospital's 530 beds, to
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