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for patients requiring convalescent care and rehabilitation but certain wards will be allocated for the care of tuberculosis patients. On Hong Kong Island Government maintains another large general hospital, the Queen Mary, which performs the same functions for that area as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital does for Kowloon. This hospital is also the teaching hospital for the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong.
Other government hospitals are maintained chiefly for specialized purposes. Apart from the mental hospital these include two infec- tious disease hospitals (one of which accommodates convalescent patients from the two acute emergency hospitals), a maternity hospital of 200 beds where the teaching of medical students and the training of midwives is carried out and a small hospital for the treatment of skin and venereal diseases in women and children. Two smaller general hospitals are also maintained, one on Cheung Chau Island and the other on Lantau Island. Small hospitals are also maintained in the Colony's prisons, and maternity beds for normal midwifery are provided in many government clinics and dispensaries.
The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals is an entirely Chinese charitable organization founded 94 years ago and managed by a Board of Directors elected annually. It operates three general hospitals, the Tung Wah, the Tung Wah Eastern, and the Kwong Wah, and also an infirmary of 270 beds at Sandy Bay. These hospitals, which receive a large government subvention, provide a valuable con- tribution to the Colony's medical facilities and are gradually being modernized and expanded. A new infirmary is being built in the Wong Tai Sin area of Kowloon with a donation of A£120,000 from the Australian World Refugee Year Fund and subsidized by government grant. The first phase of the project, to provide 210 infirmary beds, is expected to be completed early in 1965. During the past few years the Kwong Wah Hospital has been rebuilt in phases at a cost of $34,111,000 and, on the completion of the final phase early in 1965, will be a modern general hospital of 1,401 beds. In addition to its medical work, the Tung Wah Board of Directors provides extensive educational facilities and relief for the poor and needy of the Colony.
Another long-established Chinese charitable organization oper- ates, with the assistance of government subvention, the 118-bed