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or material aid while under treatment, and help with certain as- pects of rehabilitation and resettlement thereafter. The Government Chest Service operates five full-time clinics equipped with radio- logical facilities and 16 subsidiary centres throughout the Colony. During the year, a total of 28,365 patients received continuous anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy on an ambulatory basis at these clinics. A total of 1,496,375 attendances was recorded.
The tuberculosis control programme is a combined effort between the Government Chest Service, the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association and the Junk Bay Medical Relief Council. Certain other organizations, both charitable and private, including the Tung Wah Group, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, the Sandy Bay Convalescent Home and the Caritas Medical Centre, also provide treatment facilities, maintained mainly with the aid of substantial government subventions. Co-ordination is achieved through a Co-ordinating Committee for the Treatment of Tuber- culosis, inaugurated in 1965.
The Colony has 1,951 beds available specifically for the treatment of tuberculosis and 4,763 patients were admitted to them during the year. The government provides 204 of these beds in Kowloon Hospital and St John Hospital on Cheung Chau Island, but the majority are in government-assisted hospitals, notably those managed by the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association. This association offers a total of 974 beds distributed between Grantham Hospital, Ruttonjee Sanatorium and Freni Memorial Home. The Grantham Hospital has 614 beds of which 576 are maintained by the govern- ment on a daily fee-paying basis, while the Ruttonjee Sanatorium and Freni Memorial Home between them have 360 beds. These hospitals also offer approved training courses leading to the British Tuberculosis Association's certificate in nursing. The Junk Bay Medical Relief Council has 263 beds at its Haven of Hope Sana- torium, of which the government maintains 80 especially for the inhabitants of the New Territories. In addition, this organization has facilities for the rehabilitation of patients and for the observa- tion of child contacts with positive tuberculin reactions. The Tung Wah Group has a variable number of tuberculosis beds for the treatment of more chronic forms of the disease, while the Sandy Bay Convalescent Home deals especially with bone tuberculosis in children amongst other forms of children's illnesses requiring