Medical and Health Divisions. Each of these divisions is in charge of an Assistant Director. The Principal Matron is the Chief Nursing Officer and administers the Nursing Division which provides nursing, mid- wifery, health visitor and health sister services.
21. The Health Division, which is the administrative responsibility of the Assistant Director of Health Services, is composed of units deal- ing with tuberculosis, malaria, port health and epidemiology, maternal and child health, school health and social hygiene, the latter including venereal diseases. leprosy and dermatology. Each of the component units of the Health Division is in the charge of a Specialist or of a Medical Officer with special experience and training. In addition, advisory services are given to the Urban Services Department, the District Administration New Territories and the Labour Department. The Assistant Director of Health Services is Vice-Chairman of the Urban Council. He is assisted in the work of the Division by a Principal Health Officer at Headquarters.
22. The Assistant Director of Medical Services, responsible for the administrative routine of the Medical Division, is assisted by a Principal Medical Officer at Headquarters and by two Principal Medical Officers who are respectively Medical Superintendents of the two Government general hospitals, one on Hong Kong Island and one in Kowloon. There are clinical units of general medicine, general surgery, anaesthesia, car, nose and throat, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmo- logy, orthopaedics, pathology, psychiatry and radiology, each of which works under the clinical direction of a Specialist. There are two infectious diseases hospitals, one on either side of the harbour. The Government Dental Service is under the direction of a Senior Dental Specialist and the Government Chemist is responsible for the work of the Government Laboratory. The work of the Government outpatient clinics throughout the Colony is co-ordinated by the Medical Division although certain of the services rendered from these clinics are provided by the Health Division. The Medical-Social, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Services are also part of the Medical Division.
23. The Auxiliary Medical Service, which is a branch of the Civil Defence Services, is administered by the Medical Defence Staff Officer who is a member of the Medical and Health Department Headquarters staff. The Director of Medical and Health Services is the Unit Controller.
24. The routine administrative. secretarial, establishments and clerical work of the Department is under the general direction of the
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Secretary, while the Principal Accountant and his staff deal with the financial and accounting duties, The Boards section is supervised by the Boards Secretury,
25. The pharmaceutical and dispensing activities are the respon- sibility of the Chief Pharmacist who also has inspectorial duties in connexion with the Dangerous Drugs and Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinances,
26. The Chief Hospital Secretary is responsible for the supply of equipment and the day-to-day lay administration of the hospital and clinic services. The hospitals and clinics are at present grouped into two large units to each of which is posted an Hospital Secretary, Assistant Hospital Secretaries are posted to the larger and more important institutions within the groups.
27. Appendix 1 shows the establishment ut 31st March, 1960.
FINANCE
28. The actual expenditure of the Medical and Health Department for the financial year ended 31st March, 1960 was $45,925,081 to which should be added a further $18,988,424 disbursed in the form of sub- ventions. Capital expenditure on medical projects under the Public Works Non-Recurrent head totalled $15,442.311. These amounts represent 11.32% of the Colony's total expenditure during the year. This does not include expenditure on environmental sanitation by the Urban Services Department and the District Administration of the New Territories.
29, A Statement of Expenditure for the ten years from 1950-51 to 1959-60 is shown at Appendix 2.
30. The total revenue collected by the Department during the year from all sources totalled $3,097.438.
31. The largest subvention was made to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals which received $8,500,000; in addition, a further capital grant of $4.381,719 was made towards the cost of Phase II of the re-develop- ment of the Kwong Wah Hospital.
32. Other major subventions were $2,926,482 to the Grantham Hospital. $1.346.979 to the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association and $550,000 to the Mission to Lepers, Hong Kong Auxiliary.