students qualified in Australia and returned to the Colony. Altogether, since the scheme commenced in 1954, 23 students have returned to Hong Kong as qualified dental surgeons.
431. The fourth class in dental technology, comprising four newly- appointed student dental technicians, began training in January, 1964; however, one of these students resigned almost immediately after joining. The initial training of the students is carried out in the dental laboratory of the Hong Kong Technical College, which was set up by the College in 1960; in the evenings the laboratory is used for the further training of dental technicians, most of whom are in the employment of dentists in private practice. 30 places are available on two concurrent thirty-week evening courses.
432. One dental technician and two student dental technicians passed the Intermediate Examination in Dental Technology of the City and Guilds of London Institute, the first local technicians ever to do so.
433. Dental nurses, who carry out preventive and minor operative work in the Government service under the supervision of dental officers, are being trained in New Zealand and Penang. Six of these dental auxil- iaries are now employed in the public service in Hong Kong. A further student dental nurse was sent to Penang, where there is now a total of five such students training under scholarships awarded by the World Health Organization.
NURSES
434. During the year, course of training continued satisfactorily in General Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Midwifery and for Health Visitors.
General Nursing
435. There is full reciprocity of registration between the general oursing qualifications of the Nursing Board in Hong Kong and of the General Nursing Council of England and Wales. In the Queen Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing and in the Nurses Training School at the Queen Mary Hospital, the medium of instruction is English, while in the other approved Nurses Training Schools, which are maintained by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, teaching is carried out in Chinese. At the end of March, 1964, the numbers under training were as shown in Table 55.
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TABLE 55
NURSES IN TRAINING MARCH, 1964
Aden
Total
Government Schools of Nursing
483
366
Tung Wah Hospitals
361
361
Nethersole Hospital
F ៥។
11
Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital...
135
E
135
140
Total
1,119
83
1.202
Psychiatric Nursing
436. The School of Psychiatric Nursing at the Castle Peak Hospital. now in its third year, had 66 students in training, of whom 23 were women. Although the number of entrants to the Psychiatric Nursing course in- creased from 34 to 66, the response, particularly from female students, is not yet sufficient to meet the demand for locally-trained psychiatric nurses. The qualification is fully recognized by the General Nursing Council of England and Wales.
Midwives
437. Registered general nurses who have trained in the Government Schools of Nursing are expected to proceed to a one-year course in midwifery, conducted in English as the teaching medium, in the maternity wards of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals. The number of nurses taking this course increased from 72 to 97 owing to the greatly- increased number of maternity beds made available for such training by the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Nurses who have trained in other approved training schools can also take a similar course, con- ducted in Chinese, in the maternity wards of their respective hospitals.
438. For student midwives who are not registered nurses there is a two-year training course conducted in Chinese by the Government staff at the Tsan Yuk Hospital.
HEALTH VISITORS
439. As in previous years, a course of training was held at the Harcourt Health Centre for ten student Health Visitors. Each entrant to this course has previously obtained qualifications both in general nursing and in midwifery. After one year's tuition and study, the students take the
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