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The out-patient services of Government are considerably aug- mented by Chinese voluntary and charitable organizations which take a most active interest in medical and health problems. The only other services which attract equivalent interest amongst these organizations are education and the provision of death benefits. The Tung Wah Group maintains large free out-patient services at their three hospitals and two other long established Chinese chari- table associations, the Chung Sing Benevolent Society and the Lok Sin Tong, also run medical clinics. Kaifong Associations and District Associations whose members claim a common ancestral home in the mainland of China, support a number of clinics, which give treatment free or at nominal cost. Clansmen's Associations, whose members have the same surname but are not necessarily related, have arranged for doctors amongst their members to provide low cost treatment for their fellow members. Low cost clinics are also provided by a number of Christian, Buddhist and other religious organizations.
This may perhaps be an appropriate place to record that the Colony's wedding present to HRH Princess Margaret was a pair of lavender jade horses; because the balance of the sum of $50 thousand was devoted to the perpetual endowment of a bed at Sandy Bay children's hospital; the endowment for two years of two beds at Ruttonjee TB Sanatorium; and to the World Refugee Year Committee's funds.
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In Government hospitals there are clinical specialists in anaes- thetics; chest surgery; dentistry; ear, nose and throat diseases; eye diseases; general medicine; general surgery; neuro-surgery; obstetrics and gynaecology; orthopaedic surgery; psychiatry; pathology; radiodiagnosis and radiotherapy. There are also specialist posts in tuberculosis, and in social hygiene, a term which in practice includes dermatology, leprosy and venereal diseases. Malaria control and Forensic Pathology are under the charge of officers of senior rank. The Government Institute of Pathology provides clinical pathology and public health laboratory services. Autopsies are carried out at the public mortuaries by forensic pathologists. Blood banks are maintained at the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals, and the Hong Kong Branch of the