but are sufficiently well not to be in need of special nursing care. Con- sultant services are supplied by the University Professorial Units of Medicine, Surgery and Orthopaedics. Medical and senior nursing staff are provided by the Sisters of the St. Columban Missionary Order.
162. In addition. the medical staff of the Sanatorium maintain the B.C.G. and 'follow-up' clinic in the Association's Headquarters situated next door to the hospital, and undertake the X-ray and medical work in connexion with the Tuberculosis Insurance Scheme.
The numbers of patients admitted during recent years are shown
163. in Table 20.
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WORK OF BUTTONJEE SANATORIUM AND FRENE MÉNDRIAL CONVALESCENT HOME
1960-63
Adults through Government Clinics
1950
1961 1962 1963
350 289 439
370
Children (Pulmonary) through
Government Clinic
MY
Children (Orthopaedic)
tra
$2 39
31
34
49
$6
44
Other admissions and re-admissions
252 302 427
S04
Total...
693
678 985
SHET
The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
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164. This group of three hospitals has a varying total of between 300 and 454 beds available for patients with tuberculosis. These beds are almost entirely occupied by cases of a chronic type and the turnover is accordingly relatively slow. No special subvention is made to support these beds as the total recurrent expenditure of the group is met by a Government subvention. In the busy maternity wards of these hospitals the B.C.G. vaccination of new-born babies is carried out by staff of the Government Tuberculosis Service.
The Haven of Hope Sanatorium
165. Maintained by the Junk Bay Medical Relief Society, this inter- denominational Protestant Mission Sanatorium provides 230 beds for the medical treatment of tuberculosis. No major surgical or orthopaedic work is undertaken. The Sanatorium staff also maintain a tuberculosis outpatient and 'follow-up' clinic al nearby Rennie's Mill and carry out some tuberculosis survey work amongst the villagers in the Junk Bay
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area. Government maintains 80 beds in the Sanatorium for the free treatment of New Territories villagers and also gives a small annual grant towards the cost of the X-ray survey work.
Other Voluntary Agencies
166. The Lutheran World Service developed in 1961 a pilot rehabilita- tion scheme for patients with arrested or cured tuberculosis. The scheme has now become well established and its activities are being expanded as additional facilities become available.
Private Hospitals
167. There are 64 beds provided in private hospitals, some of which are classed as charity beds in which treatment is given at low cost or free. There is also a considerable amount of ambulatory chemotherapy given by private practitioners, but there is no information at present available either on the numbers of patients under treatment or the results of such treatment,
MALARIA BUREAU
168. The Malaria Bureau, under the direction of the Specialist (Malariology), is responsible for all malaria control operations through- out the Colony and, in certain instance, also undertakes the control of the breeding of culicine mosquitoes. In addition, lectures are given on malaria and allied subjects to various groups of health personnel under training, and expert advice is given as required to the Armed Services, to the Pest Control Unit of the Urban Services Department. to Hei Ling Chau Leprosarium and to Her Majesty's Prisons in the New Territories.
Control Operations
169.
The important malaria vectors are A. minimus and A. jeyporiensis var, candidiensis. Malaria control in the urban areas is based chicfly on anti-larval measures consisting of training and clean weeding of hill streams, ditching and oiling. Anti-malaria oil continues to be employed as the main larvicide, although Gammexane Dispersible Powder and Diazinon are also used on a limited scale in areas where the application of oil is unsuitable, such as in rice fields and irrigation ditches leading from seepages to rice cultivation. The urban control programme includes Hong Kong Island and, in Kowloon, an area extending from just beyond Lai Chi Kok in the Wast to Lei Yue Mun in the east, end as far north as the Kowloon Reservoir. Also included in the programme are certain
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