to each 450 of the population (i.e. 1 place to 5 persons) and this provision has been found generally sufficient. By the end of this year, a total of 55 estate schools had been opened in various resettlement estates.
75. In recent years, there has been a growing demand for pre-primary places. Special 3-storey 18-classroom kindergartens are built in the end bays of Mark V and VI blocks, to provide a ratio of 1 classroom to 3,600 persons (i.e. 1 place to 40). In the older estates, kindergartens are provided on rooftop and ground floor premises but the overall provision is below this ratio. (See Appendix 11).
76. Premises are also made available in the estates for nurseries, vocational training centres, welfare centres, children and youth centres, libraries and reading rooms and a variety of other welfare services. They are allocated to welfare organizations recommended by the Social Welfare Department at a nominal rent of $1 a month. In the newer estates, these welfare activities are provided in six-storey estate welfare buildings with 2,300 square feet of space on each floor. Services normally provided in the estate welfare buildings include a medical clinic, children's library, youth club and nursery as well as specialist offices. of the Social Welfare Department. A playground is also provided on the rooftop, used exclusively by the nursery. These buildings are pro- vided at a ratio of one to every 50,000 residents; six such buildings are now in operation.
77. A number of welfare bodies have set up low cost or free clinics for which a nominal rent of $1 per month is charged (See Appendix 13). The Low Cost Medical Care Scheme has been in operation since September 1967. This was introduced to replace mobile clinics which had ceased to be permitted in the estates. Ground floor clinic premises are allocated to members of the Low Cost Clinic Association of Registered Doctors at an economic rent equivalent to that of grade C shop rent. Fees are limited to $3 per consultation. The object is to provide a ratio of 1 doctor to 6,000 people. A total of 50 low cost clinics have been set up, and during the year 2 larger premises were allocated to welfare agencies in the estate welfare buildings.
78. Recreation areas are included in all resettlement estates; pitches for football and basket-ball; children's playgrounds equipped with swings, slides and other equipment; and rest gardens and sitting-out
areas.
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