of students, which will also house a radio-therapeutic department; a seven-storey block connected to the rear of the main hospital, accom- modating 4 theatre suites, a central sterile supply department and an expanded pharmacy; and a large radio-diagnostic department at the front of the main building. In addition, there will be increased accom- modation for nurses and the Nurses Training School, now accommodated in the main hospital, will be reprovisioned in the nurses home. By April 1963, the plans for these extensions were well advanced, and during the year a start was made on site formation for the main buildings. A new emergency generator house and more parking spaces for vehicles were constructed, the work being completed at the end of November; the kitchen, which was proving inadequate to cope with the increasing numbers of patients, is being reprovisioned on the roof of the hospital, and this work was nearing completion by the end of March 1964.
270. Although the hospital has a nominal capacity of 623 beds, the increased demand for services, particularly from emergency admissions. required the use of camp beds averaging 120 each day throughout the
year.
271. Apart from the casualty department, which provides a 24-hour service for emergencies from Hong Kong Island, no general out-patient clinics are held at the hospital. However, specialist out-patient clinics are held at the Sai Ying Pun Polyclinic by the University and some Government clinical units. Government specialist clinics are also held at the Violet Peel Polyclinic.
272. A total of 21,518 patients were admitted during the year, and Table 39 sets out the work of the hospital over the past five years.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
273. Reference has already been made in paragraph 7 to the com- missioning and opening of this institution, which not only is the largest hospital in Hong Kong but also is the Colony's largest building with a built-over area of nearly one million square feet.
274. Apart from the emergency services of its casualty department, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is designed to provide modern specialized facilities for the rapidly expanding population of Kowloon and the main- land portion of the New Territories. After nearly a year
of
preparatory work by a commissioning unit, the hospital of 1,338 beds began to admit patients on 3rd December, 1963, and was fully operational by 14th January, 1964. However, the Institute of Radiology, which will offer the most modern radiotherapeutic measures, was not functioning by the end of the year under review; it is expected that the Institute will be opened towards the end of June, 1964. Other parts of the hospital not com- pleted at 31st March, 1964, were the laundry and certain of the quarters. 275. The casualty department, opened on the 17th December, 1963, dealt with a total of 27,867 emergency cases between that date and 31st March, 1964. An analysis of these cases has been made, and the results are detailed in Table 40,
Traumatic
TABLE 40
CASUALTY DEPARTMENT, QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL
Assault
9.4%
Traffic
6.0%
11
Industrial
9.9%
Domestic
16.9%
Sport...
LIX%
Other...
4.0%
TABLE 39
QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL 1959-63
47.3%
Non-Traumatic
Infectious
0.9%
Medical & Paediatric
27.2%
Maternity Cases admitted
www
General in-patients (excluding
matemity)
19,59 1960 1961 1.925 2,100 2,300
1962 1963
1,390 2,250
Surgical
12.9%
Obstetric
0.6%
Gynaecological
3.7%
1-་
ULL
Total out-patient attendances Casualties attended (included in the
above figures)
I
Operations (excluding minor ones)....... Mortality (expressed as percentage
of admissions)
22.307 23,402 41,936 46.589 43.816 7,212 8,160 6.420 9,681 9,623
Unknown
7.5
7.0
7.3
6.6
7.5
12,695 14,612 15,376 18,336 19,268 63,676 58,191 71,046 83,458 81,209
Psychiatric Other...
1.4%
5.5%
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52.2%
.5%
1
+1
TIE
..
Total
100.0%
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