VL. BUILDING PROGRAMME
454. Reference has been made throughout this report to the increas ing pressure on all institutions. However, during the year the results of the planning programme began to be evident and an indication of the progress made is outlined below:
(a) Completed new projects or major extensions:
(i) The New Tai O Dispensary, a three-storey building donated by the Hong Kong Jockey Club was opened on 23.4.59, (ii) The new Hung Hom Dispensary and Maternity Hospital
was opened on 30,6.59.
(m) The new Maternity Block at Kowloon Hospital was com pleted and handed over to the Department on 7.9.59. (iv) The Dental Clinic in the Farm Road Government Offices
was opened in March, 1960.
(b) Projects under construction or being plarmed :
(D) Work on the Sai Ying Pun Polyclinic is progressing and the building is expected to be completed in July, 1960. (ii) Queen Elizabeth Hospital-the excavation of the basement is completed, the piling was completed by February, 1960 and the contract for construction of the basement was let in February, 1960.
(iii) Queen Elizabeth Hospital Sisters' & Nurses' Quarters and
Training School should be completed by June 1960. (iv) Kowloon Hospital 'F Block which contains two 34-bed wards and 4 operating theatres is nearing completion and will be ready for occupation in April, 1960.
(v) Work is progressing on the Castle Peak Hospital and a further 120 beds were occupied in February, 1960. The remainder of the 1,000 beds should be ready by September, 1960.
(vi) The building of the Jockey Club Clinic Kennedy Towa is progressing and the building will be ready for occupation in June, 1960.
(vii) The Virus Laboratory at Queen Mary Hospital will be
ready for occupation in May, 1960.
(viii) Planning is continuing on-
(a) Sha Tau Kok Clinic and Maternity Home (b) Jockey Club Clinic, Shek Wu Hui
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(c) Jockey Club Clinic. Aberdeen
(d) South Lantau Hospital (Shek Pik) (e) Pok Fu Lam Godown
(f) Yuen Long Clinic (g) Yau Ma Tei Clinic
(h) Kwun Tong Clinic
(0) Tsuen Wan Clinic
( Cheung Sha Wan Police Clinic
(*) Queen Mary Hospital Extension
(1) Kowloon Hospital Kitchen
VIL PUBLICATIONS
455. The following articles were published by members of the
Department:
Title of Article
1. Psychiatry and Social
Work.
1.
The Use of Meprobamulo
in the treatment of heroin with drawul symptoms.
3.
Dental Health Education
of the Public.
4.
Treatment of Male Gonor- rhoea with a Chlorate
cracycline Sulphonamide Combination.
Publicaier
Bulletin of the Hong
Kong Medical Associa- tion.
Bulletin on Nicolis.
United Nations. April -June 1999.
Bulletin of the American
Association of Public Health Dentists September 1959 & December, 1959. British Journal of
Vencrcel Discuss. March, 1960.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Name and Title of Author Dr. F. M. YAP.
Psychiatric Specialist.
Dr. C. O. LEF.
Medical Superintendem. Queen Mary Hospital.
Mr. Walter C. ALLWRIGHT,
Senior Derual Specialist.
Dr. G. M. THOMSON,
Senior Social Hygiene Specialist.
No progress can be made without the active support and co-operation of all concerned in the task of providing a medical and health service in Hong Kong. The co-operation of other Departments of Government, of the voluntary and charitable associations and of the medical missions is acknowledged with gratitude as is the practical generosity of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. A special tribute is paid to all grades of staff of the Department who have worked with loyalty and devotion towards the solution of the many medical and health problems with which Hong Kong is faced.
D. J. M. MACKENZIE,
Director of Medical & Health Services.
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