190. Besides amalgamating the Tuberculosis Workers and Social Hygiene Visitors, the initial establishment of the new grade includes 20 Student Health Auxiliary posts for the training of new appointees to the grade. These 20 Student Health Auxiliaries will form the basis of a training cadre for the grade. They undergo training for two years in health education and in public health nursing which includes maternal and child bealth work, the tracing and keeping of records of infectious diseases in general, and tuberculosis, leprosy and venereal disease in particular. On joining the service Student Health Auxiliaries will be attached first to the Government School of Nursing for 12 weeks and then to hospital wards for 16 weeks, of which not less than 4 will be in an obstetric ward. After the hospital familiarization, they will be posted in rotation to units of the health services to obtain intensive public health training and to gain in-service field experience. During the two-year course observation visits will be arranged to various welfare organizations. Students will be required to sit a test after their hospital study period and a final department examination at the end of the two- year course. On passing the final examination, they will become Health Auxiliaries and assist Health Visitors in the prevention of infectious dis- cases, in health education and in home visiting.
RADIOGRAFIERS
191. Training in this sphere was continued during the year and examinations were held in the Colony for Membership of the Society of Radiographers of England for both therapy and diagnostic radiographers.
192. During the year 7 Student Radiographers passed the Part II examination and 2 others passed the Part I examination for the Member- ship of the Society of Radiographers.
LABORATORY TECHNICIANS
193. The Government Institute of Pathology maintained its in-service training for Medical Laboratory Technicians. No Intermediate Examina- tion of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology of the United Kingdom was conducted this year. Seven technicians returned from the United Kingdom this year with the A.L.M.L.T. qualification.
OTHER FORMS OF DEPARTMENTAL TRAINING
194. In-service courses of training were continued for Dispensers, Tuberculosis Workers, Social Hygiene Visitors, Dental Technicians and
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Orthopaedic Appliance Technicians. These do not all lead to recognized qualifications but prepare those concerned for appointment to permanent posts in Government service after passing a departmental examination.
VIII. DONATIONS
(See table 79)
195. During the past 15 years the Colony's medical and Health serv ices have 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 $338,800. 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 $31,800,000 towards a variety of projects ranging from fully-equipped floating clinics costing approximately $500,000 each to the Queen Eliza- beth Hospital Radiological Institute opened in June 1964 at a cost of $6,000,000. The complex Jockey Club Polyclinic at Yau Ma Tei, opened in March 1967 is the latest symbol of the Club's generosity, the Club itself having contributed $5,000,000 towards this project, 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.
196. Sir Shiu-kin Tang, whose philanthropy is well-known, contri- buted a further $300,000 towards the cost of a hospital now being planned, thus bringing his total contribution in respect of this project to $1,300,000. 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 $78,200 was distributed in this way.
IX. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
197. 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
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