Director, Medical, and is concerned with the provision of curative and specialist clinical services. Each Assistant Director is assisted by a Principal Medical and Health Officer at Headquarters, and each division is divided into units which are individually under the charge of a Specialist or of a Medical and Health Officer with special experience and training. The respective spheres of responsibility of the two Divisions are outlined in Appendix 2.
28. The Principal Medical and Health Officer (Planning) assisted by a Senior Hospital Secretary, is responsible for the co-ordination of all requests for accommodation and equipment for new Medical and Health Department institutions, for the processing of building plans and for the detail of the forward planning of the Department's activities. In addition, advice and assistance are given on request to voluntary and private organizations engaged in the planning and erection of medical institutions.
29. The Auxiliary Medical Service, which is a branch of the Civil Defence Service, 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.
30. The routine administrative, secretarial, establishment and clerical work of the Department is under the general direction of the Secretary, while the Principal Accountant and his staff deal with the financial and accounting duties. The work of the Boards section is co-ordinated by the Boards Secretary.
31. The pharmaceutical and dispensing activities are the responsi- bility of the Chief Pharmacist, who also has inspectorale duties in connexion with the Dangerous Drugs and Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinances.
32. The Government Chemist is responsible for the work of the Government Chemical Laboratory which undertakes the analytical, forensic chemistry and standards work in the Colony.
33. The Chief Hospital Secretary and his staff undertake 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 each of which is the responsibility of a Hospital Secretary. Assistant Hospital Secretaries are posted to the larger and more important institutions within these groups.
34. Appendix I shows the establishment at 31st March, 1962.
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FINANCE
35. The actual expenditure of the Medical and Health Department for the financial year ended 31st March, 1962, was $64,064,336 to which should be added a further $25,009,269 disbursed in the form of sub- ventions. Capital expenditure on medical projects under the Public Works Non-Recurrent head totalled $9,836,801. These amounts represent 10.38% of the Colony's total expenditure during the year. This does not include expenditure on environmental sanitation by the Urban Services Department and the New Territories Administration.
36. A Statement of Expenditure for the five years from 1957-58 to 1961-62 is shown at Appendix 3.
37. The total revenue collected from all sources by the Department amounted to $4,859,444.
38. The largest subvention was made to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals which received $12.495,539. In addition, a further capital grant of $4,922,184 was made towards the cost of Phase IV of the rebuilding of the Kwong Wah Hospital. Other large subventions were $1,060,000 to the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, $2,930,736 to the Grantham Hospital. $1,000,000 to the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association, $740,000 to the Mission to Lepers, Hong Kong Auxiliary and $450,000 to the Pọk Di Hospital.
LEGISLATION
39. The following legislation dealing with medical and health matters was enacted during the year 1961-62. Mention is made of the purpose of the more important ordinances in the body of this report.
Ordinances/
(i) Nurses Registration Ordinance, 1961.
(ii) Dangerous Drugs (Amendment and Validation of Regulations)
Ordinance, 1961.
(iii) Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) Ordinance, 1961.
(iv) Mental Health (Amendment) Ordinance, 1961.
(V) Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Ordinance, 1962.
(vi) Quarantine and Prevention of Disease (Amendment) Ordinance,
1962.
Rules and Regulations :
(a) Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of Schedule) Order, 1961,
(G.N.A. 61/61).