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KOWLOON HOSPITAL
95. With the completion of renovation of the hospital premises towards the end of 1965, a total of 500 beds in Kowloon Hospital was ready for use by February 1966 with fully equipped facilities and staff. An additional block of 600 beds has been planned for and site forma- tion commenced in carly March 1967. When complcted, there will be a total of 1,100 beds in this hospital as subsidiary accommodation for Queen Elizabeth Hospital and for Chest diseases requiring both medical and surgical management.
96. A long term design for establishing a Chest Centre at Kowloon Hospital has been achieved with the opening of the Pulmonary Tuber- culosis Unit in September 1965 and the transfer of the Thoracic Surgical Unit from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in February 1966. These 2 units have a total of 168 beds. Apart from treating patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, the work of these 2 units includes also other aspects of cardio-thoracic surgery and non-tuberculous chest disease.
TSAN YUK HOSPITAL
(See table $2Į
97. This hospital, under the clinical supervision of the University Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, is the main specialist obstetric hospital in the Colony. It is the teaching centre in Obstetrics for medical undergraduates and the training school for midwives who have not first trained as general nurses.
98. Approximately 93.65% of admissions were cases registered at the hospital ante-natal clinic, and were in the main primiparae, grand multigravidae or other cases requiring specialist care: the remainder of the admissions were emergency cases referred from other sources. There were seven maternal deaths, the causes of which were: 4 cases of septicaemia, one case of mitral stenosis, one case of bronchogenic carcinoma and one case of ruptured splenic vein.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Castle Peak Hospital (See table 53)
99. With the addition of extra 240 beds by the completion of 2 new ward blocks during the year, the bed capacity of the hospital has increased to 1,359 beds. The hospital was still overcrowded over the revised bed capacity and at the end of the year under review 1,475 patients were accommodated.
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