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also contains the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club Institute of Radiology, incorporating the most recent equipment for radio- therapy and is probably the most comprehensive centre in South- East Asia for the treatment of malignant diseases.
The Kowloon Hospital is used mainly as a subsidiary to the Queen Elizabeth for patients requiring convalescent care and rehabilitation. There are 500 beds of which 162, linked with thoracic surgery and pulmonary function units, are allocated to the care of patients suffering from tuberculosis and other diseases of the chest. An additional block of 600 beds has been planned for which construction began in March 1967.
On Hong Kong Island the government maintains another large general hospital, the Queen Mary, which performs the same functions for the island as the Queen Elizabeth does for Kowloon. This hospital is also the teaching hospital for the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong. Extensive additions to the hospital were completed and became operational during the year. A phased programme of alterations, adding 454 beds and bringing the hospital's bed complement to a total of 1,086, commenced in July, 1967 and is expected to be completed in May, 1969.
Other government hospitals are maintained chiefly for specialized purposes. Apart from the Castle Peak Hospital, they include two infectious disease hospitals (one of which also accommodates convalescent patients from the two acute emergency hospitals), a maternity hospital of 238 beds, where the teaching of medical students and training of midwives is carried out, and a small hospital for the treatment of skin diseases in women and children. Two smaller general hospitals are maintained, one on Cheung Chau Island and the other on Lantau Island. Small hospitals are also established 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 a charitable organization founded 97 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-with a total of 3,419 beds. These hospitals, whose recurrent expenditure is met mainly