by voluntary and charitable bodies in receipt of financial assistance from Government. The situation can be gauged from Figure I which shows new and total attendances at Government out-patient clinics alone during the past five years.
FIGURE I
OUT-PATIENTS ATTENDANCES AT GOVERNMENT CLINICS
1956-60
to be met mainly by a markedly increased rate of turnover of inpatients. This can be appreciated by a study of Figure II, which shows the number of beds available in all hospitals and the numbers of patients admitted during the past five years.
FIGURE I
ROSPITAL REDS
(Excluding Maternity Homes)
6,000,OUN
3,000,000
1.000.000
3.000,000
*0,000
1,000,000
1956
New Loren
Depeat arrenda the ca
1957
4961
1950
40-00
3,200
2,400
BPT
5. The shortage of low cost or free hospital beds has been the most serious single problem and has been aggravated by a number of factors. One of these, the increasing demand for western medicine, has already been mentioned. In addition, the rapid increase in population has resulted in a greatly augmented incidence of all forms of trauma and hospital admissions from this source have risen by fifty two per cent during the past four years. Moreover, the gradual ageing of a relatively young population has been reflected in the increasing number of patients suffering from malignant neoplasms and from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disasters.
6. This burden has fallen most heavily upon the general medical and surgical beds of the Colony which are maintained in Government and Government subsidized hospitals especially upon those on the Kowloon peninsula where the most rapid industrial development has taken place during recent years. Although there has been some interim emergency provision of extra wards in existing hospitals and wide. spread use of camp beds in the wards the problem has bad, perforce.
2
90.000
10,000
50,000
30,000
10,000
56
TOTAL BOSPITAL BED4
37
GENERAL DEUS
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TORNAMNANKA Privala
559
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TOTAL CAFES ADMITTED
A
50
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GENERAL GAŠĖS ADMITTED
60
AC
37
5.8
30
60