the chairmanship of the Director of Medical and Health Services and is composed of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the three Principal Directors of the Board, a prominent Chinese citizen appointed by His Excellency the Governor, a member from the Permanent Advisers to the Tung Wah Board, representatives from the Government Finance, Public Works and Medical Departments and the Medical Superintendents of the Hospitals. The Board of Directors raises large sums annually from donations, charity functions, public appeals and a flag-day. This money is devoted mainly to capital expenditure on hospitals, primary schools and welfare services for the poor. Government gave a subvention of $13,799,169 in 1962-63 to meet the recurrent expenditure of the hospitals and infirmaries.
345. Each hospital provides general medical, surgical and obstetric facilities. In addition, wards containing an average of 250 to 350 beds are set aside in the hospitals and infirmaries for the accommodation of patients with tuberculosis. A Group Medical Superintendent and three Medical Superintendents are appointed by Government to the hospitals and Government Nursing Sisters are seconded to the Nurses Training school as Tutors. All training and other activities are conducted in Chinese. Consultant Services are given voluntarily by private medical practitioners and, in some instances, by Government Specialists.
346. Patients are admitted through large out-patient departments maintained at each of the three hospitals. A number of acute medical and surgical conditions are treated and there is also accommodation for patients with chronic disease requiring long periods of inpatient care. The infirmaries cater for many suffering from incurable or disabling diseases who cannot be cared for at home. The obstetric service is an extremely busy and important one and one third of the babies born in the Colony each your are delivered in the three Tung Wah Hospitals. The work done is detailed at Appendix 11.
347. The major occupation of the Directors al present is the redevelopment of the Kwong Wah Hospital in Kowloon. The building is being done in five phases; the fourth phase, which was started early in 1962, was nearing completion at the end of the year under review and work had commenced on the fifth and final stage.
348. la addition to this major project, an extension to the Sandy Bay Infirmary, accommodating 180 patients, was opened in December. 1962; this provides a much-needed addition to the accommodation available for chronic and disabled patients. At the Tung Wah Hospital,
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43 mentally-defective patients are now being cared for in a renovated block of the old Hospital; these wards were formally opened in February, 1963.
The Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
349. This hospital now provides 300 beds for general medical. surgical and obstetric care and maintains a large outpatient department. The increase in beds was provided to meet the new requirements of the Hong Kong Nursing Board and the General Nursing Council of England and Wales in respect of a Nurses Training School.
350. Demolition of the old East Wing and Nurses Quarters was commenced during the year to make way for new buildings which will provide further ward accommodation, a nurses block and medical staff quarters.
Pok Oi Hospital
351. Situated on the outskirts of Yuen Long in the New Territories, the Pok Oi Hospital provides 118 beds for the treatment of medical and minor surgical illness that do not require specialist medical or surgical care. There are operating theatre, radiodiagnostic and laboratory facilities of a simple nature. It is managed by an Executive Committee consisting of six representatives of the statutory Board of Directors and six representatives of Government. The Board of Directors provides charitable services in the Chinese tradition and raises Funds from voluntary sources for the capital and recurrent costs. These are augmented by Government subvention on a deficiency grant basis. A Government Medical and Health Officer is seconded to the Hospital as Medical Superintendent.
352. The foundation stone of a new out-patient department was laid by the Director of Medical and Health Services on the 30th March, 1963. The completion of this building will mark the first phase in a plan for the expansion of the out-patient and in-patient facilities of the hospital which is designed to meet the needs of the increasing population in that area.
Hei Ling Chun Leprosarium
353. Maintained with the aid of a substantial recurrent subvention from Government by the Mission to Lepers, Hong Kong Auxiliary, on an island six miles from Hong Kong, the Leprosarium contains accom- modation for up to 540 leprosy patients. The Maxwell Memorial
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