entrance qualifications and of shorter duration that of pupil nursing auxiliary. The training is being carried out at Kowloon Hospital and takes two years; it is an essentially practical training which will fit them for the performance of routine nursing duties, particularly in the care of convalescent and long stay patients and so assist and where possible free the Registered Nurses, with a background of sound general and professional education, to concentrate more on those tasks which require a nurse's training and skill, such as teaching, organizing and supervising the more advanced technical procedures.
HEALTH VISITORS
186. As in previous years, a course of training was held for ten Student Health Visitors who, after one year's tuition and study, took the examination for the Health Visitor's Certificate conducted by the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (England). All were successful.
RADIOGRAPHERS
187. Training in this sphere was continued during the year sund examinations were held in the Colony for Membership of the Society of Radiographers of England for both therapy and diagnostic radio- graphers.
188. During the year four students from Kuala Lumpur wetc accepted for training for the Membership of The Society of Radio- graphers (Therapy) part II examination, at the request of the Malaysian Government which paid the cost.
LABORATORY TECHNICIANS
189. The Government Institute of Pathology maintained its in- service training for Medical Laboratory Technicians. No Intermediate Examination of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology of the United Kingdom was conducted this year. Six technicians returned from the United Kingdom this year with the ALM.L.T. qualification.
OTHER FORMS OF DEPARTMENTAL TRAINING
190. In-service courses of training were continued for Dispensers, Tuberculosis Workers, Social Hygiene Visitors, Dental Technicians and Orthopaedic Appliance Techoicians. These do not all lead to recognized
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qualifications but prepare those concerned for appointment to per- manent posts in Government service after passing a departmental examination.
VIII. DONATIONS
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191. During the past 15 years the Colony's medical and health services bave benefited to a considerable degree from donations received from a number of non-Government organizations and individuals, and in the year under review this continuing interest has been reflected in donations totalling $2,179,996. As in past years the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club has continued to play a prominent role. Since the opening of the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital in 1955 the Club has in fact donated almost $30,000,000 towards a variety of projects ranging from fully-equipped floating clinics costing approximately $500,000 each to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Radiological Institute opened in June 1964 at a cost of $6,000,000. The Jockey Club Health Centre, Yuen Long, completed in February 1966 at a cost of $1,750,000 is the latest symbol of the Club's generosity, and the Colony will stand in permanent debt to the substantial aid it has received from this source towards the development of its medical services in the post-war period.
192. Sir Shiu-kin TANG, whose philanthropy is well-known, con- tributed a further $350,000 towards the cost of a hospital now being planned, thus bringing his total contribution in respect of this project to $1,000,000. Pending completion of the plans for this hospital, the interest from Sir Shiu-kin TANG's donation is being devoted to assisting certain non-Government organizations concerned with the provision of medical assistance for the Colony's needy. During the year, some $45,000 was distributed in this way.
IX. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
193. It is my privilege once again to acknowledge with deepest sincerity my thanks for the loyal and energetic support I have continued to receive from all officers of the Department. As will be appreciated from a study of this report, the pressure of work on all sections has continued to increase, aggravated in some sections by staff shortages and poor working conditions. Despite the constant strain arising from this all members of the staff have worked hard and unflaggingly to
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