maintained in the Mental Day Hospital on Hong Kong Island following on the transfer to Castle Peak Hospital of all in-patients of the Victoria Mental Hospital.
298. A sum of $69,500 was available for the purchase of raw materials and miscellaneous stores and for the provision of incentive payments*. Articles produced were sold by the Welfare Handicrafts shop in Kowloon and at the Annual Exhibition of Crafts at the Mental Hospital. In addition, a number of items such as brooms and waste paper baskets are made in quantity for the Government Stores Department.
299. Incentive payments are made to patients in the Castle Peak Hospital who produce articles for sale: this money is used to pay for entertainments such as film shows, Chinese operas, concerts and Chinese dinners. A wide range of articles is produced including paintings, rattan and wooden furniture, baskets of many types, toys, needlework, tape- stries and woven articles,
300. The opening of the Drug Addiction Centre in the Castle Peak Hospital has created certain problems in the provision of diversional therapy; a start has been made by the provision of musical instruments and by the organization of physical exercises and ball games. A wider variety of activities is being developed in order to prepare the discharged addicts for resumption of their employment and their re-integration into the community,
301. At the Queen Mary Hospital occupational therapy has been gradually increasing, mainly amongst longer-stay patients suffering from tuberculosis or from orthopaedic conditions which require therapy designed for the early rehabilitation of injured limbs.
302. At Lai Chi Kok Hospital there is a wide field for both specific and diversional occupational therapy, and archery and quoit games have been commenced for wheel-chair patients. Close co-operation has been maintained with the Physiotherapy Department, particularly in the assistance of disabled patients in the re-acquisition of skills for the essential activities of daily life.
MEDICAL EXAMINATION BOARD
303. This Board performs the medical examination of all new entrants to the Government and the Auxiliary Defence Services. Mem- bers of the Civil Service prior to confirmation to the permanent establish- ment, promotion, or transfer outside Hong Kong are also medically
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examined by the Board. In addition, work is carried out for countries which require prospective emigrants to submit a certificate of physical fitness. Each examination involves a comprehensive physical examina. tion, certain routine laboratory investigations, an X-ray of the chest and any other special investigations which may be considered necessary, Specialist advice is available from the Government clinical units.
304. The work continued to increase during 1960, and it was found necessary to post an extra medical officer to the Board for a period of four months to assist in reducing the waiting list. The work of the year is summarized in Table 40.
TABLE 40
WORK OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION BOARD 1959-60
New examinations Re-examinations
Annual Total
Toral
Amor. Defence Carits
Miscellaneous
1959
137 31
19,50 1960
99 9,454 8,570
76
218
6,281 9,411
175 15,735 17,981
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Gov. Appointments
1950 1960 1959 7.125 6.284 2,192 2,187 3,764 5,433 2,436 3,902
10,389 11,717 4,628 6,089
305. Of the persons referred for a specialist opinion, the great majority are suffering from abnormalities of the respiratory system. Pulmonary tuberculosis accounts for the rejection of 88.5% of all persons rejected as unfit for service. The analysis of the causes of rejection is given in Table 41.
TABLE 41
Diseases of the Respiratory System (excluding
Luberculosis)
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UNFITNESS Oy causes 1959-60 (per 1.000 total examination)
19.39
1960
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
60.12
41.27
2.41
1.84
Diseases of the Circulatory Systems
2.66
1.06
Diseases of the Alimentary System
1.01
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Diseases of the Skeletal System
0.50
0.06
Diseases of the Genito-urinary System
0.50
0.33
Diseases of the Nervous System
0.57
0.44
Diseases of the Endocrine System
0.38
0.39
1.90
0.12
0.69
0.06
1.14
0.83
Total
71.88
46.6L
73
Diseases of the Eye System Diseases of the Skin System Miscellaneous diseases