VISITORS
Appointment
Course of Study
Place of Study
3 Nurses
Further training in Nursing
Australia
Source of Funds
Own expense
Appointinent
Specialist (E.N.T.)
of Infectious Diseases
1 Nurse
1 Nurse
Operating Theatre and
Canadia
Own expense
Senior Medical and Health Officer
Surgical Nursing
Conferences, etc. attended
9th Congress of the Pan-Pacific
Surgical Association.. W.H.O. Seminar on Immunization in the Control of Communicable Diseases.
Place
Honolulu
Manila
Gynaecological Nursing,
Australia
Own expense
Infectious Diseases
3 Nurses
Thoracic Nursing
U.K.
Own expense
2 Nurses
E.N.T. Nursing
U.K.
Own expense
1 Nurses
Gynaecological Nursing
Australia
Own expens
t Nurse
Part 1 Midwifery Traiming
U.K.
Own expenst
1 Nurse
Dematology Nursing
U.K.
1 Nurse
Part II Midwifery Training,
U.K.
Own expensC Own expense
Premature lafónu. Nursing and Paediatric Nursing
448.
VIIL MISCELLANEOUS
ATTENDANCES AT CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
The following sets out the attendances by officers of the Medical and Health Department at Meetings and Conferences during 1963–64.
Appointment
Director of Medical &
Health Services
Health Sister
Almoner, Class I, &
Orthopaedic Appliance Advisor
Specialist (Dental)
Chemist
Orthopaedic Appliance
Advisor
Dental Officer
Senior Specialist (Psychiatry)
Conferences, etc, attended
W.H.O. Seminar on the Role
of the Hospital in the
Place
Manila
Public Health Programme. Annual Congress of the Royal
Society for the Promotion of Health.
Eastboume
Copenhagen
Stockholm
London
9th World Congress of the
International Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled, 51st Annual Meeting of the
International Dental Foderation. 22nd Conference of the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry & 19th International Congress of
6th International Prosthetics
Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Copenhagen
Course.
British Dental Association
Annual Meeting.
Oxford
W.H.O. Expert Advisory Pane)
Geneva
on Mental Health,
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449. The following distinguished medical men and women visited Hong Kong during 1963-64.
General
(1) A group of American psychiatrists, headed by Prof. Jutes MASSERMAN, Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association, visited the Castle Peak Hospital on 21.5.63 in the course of a round-the-world professional tour,
(ii) Mr. J. F. WILSON, O.B.E., Director of the Royal Common- wealth Society for the Blind, visited the Colony from 31.5.63 to 9.6.63 and called on the Director on 6.6.63 for a general discussion on the problems of rehabilitation and research into the nutritional aspects of eye diseases.
(iii) Mr. Bruce W. Everist, M.D., Chairman of the Committee on Accident Prevention of the American Academy of Paediatrics, visited the Colony from 7.7.63 to 11.7.63 in the course of a world tour to study accident prevention activities.
(iv) Prof. LIM Kok Ann, Professor of Bacteriology, University of Singapore, visited the Department on 7.7.63 to discuss the progress of virus work in Hong Kong.
(v) Dr. J. M. Liston, C.M.G., Chief Medical Officer, Department of Technical Co-operation, arrived in the Colony for a week's stay on 4.9.63.
(vi) Lord Lansdowne, Minister of State for Commonwealth and Colonial Affairs, visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on 12.9.63. (vii) Drs. J. V. GALOTTO and W. S. DAVIS of the Catholic Charities' Guidance Clinics, Diocese of Brooklyn, visited the Castle Peak Hospital on 2.9.63.
(viii) Dr. David LANDAU, an American psychiatrist, visited the Castle
Peak Drug Addiction Centre on 30.9.63.
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