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(c) a commodious outpatients block including a full size V.D. Clinic.
(d) a home for sisters and nurses.
(e) a medical officer's quarters.
27. The Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital of sixty beds has been taken over from the Chinese Dispensaries Committee and is being used as a University teaching hospital.
28. The Violet Peel Health Centre the first of the Government district Health Centres was erected in Victoria through the generosity of certain benevolent Chinese. It has accommodation for—
(a) a Maternity and Infant Welfare Centre.
(b) a School Medical Centre.
(c) a Venereal Diseases Clinic.
(d) office accommodation for the School Medical Branch.
(e) office accommodation for the inspector of the Children's Protection
Society, a voluntary society assisting in child welfare.
29. A site near the University was purchased for the second district health centre and the building will be erected as soon as funds are available.
30. A Venereal Diseases Clinic was erected near the docks on the Kowloon side. Sufficient ground has been reserved for further accommodation. It is intended that eventually the existing building will be incorporated in a larger one forming the district health centre for South Kowloon.
31. Through funds donated by Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung a model rural health centre was erected near the village of Ko Tung in the northern district of the New Territory. The centre has been called the Lady Ho Tung Health Centre
Through funds donated by Mr. Ruttonjee another model rural centre was erected at Sham Tseng in the southern district of the New Territory. It is called the Ruttonjee Dispensary.
32. Four other rural dispensaries were opened in rented premises.
The position of the Director of Medical Services with regard to the Urban Council and the Sanitary Department.
33. The position of the Director of Medical Services with regard to the Urban Council and the Sanitary Department is not yet satisfactory. Provision for the emoluments of a Senior Health Officer having been deleted from the estimates, the Director of Medical Services had to perform the duties of that officer in addition to his own. More than a year's trial of the scheme has proved that it cannot possibly be carried out fully without the appointment of a Senior Health Officer or Deputy Director for Health. The Director of Medical Services had to spent so much time at the desk dealing with Urban Council and Sanitary Department minute papers that there was little left for inspections or for superintending the enforce- ment and observance of the various ordinances relating to the public health as laid down in the Urban Council Ordinance. The Deputy Director of Medical Services having his whole time occupied with the clinical side could not assist with the health work. The result was that the Director of Medical Services even by cutting out all recreation and working during evenings and on week ends and holidays could not cope with the situation.
34. The Sanitary Inspectors were not grouped under the Health Officers as laid down in section 6 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance but continued to carry on as they had done under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance of 1903, that is, they remained responsible to the Chairman direct through his Chief Sanitary Inspector and not to the Health Officers as was intended in the scheme. This part of the scheme probably the most important of all has failed to mature, and cannot mature until the Director's deputy for health, whose appointment was asked for and approved by the Secretary of State, is added to the staff.