An elderly Hakka woman receiving advice from a Health
Visitor.
A Health Visitor giving advice to a village mother. There is increasing appreciation amongst the village women of the value of preventive services in the maintenance of health amongst infants.
KOWLOON HOSPITAL
88. This hospital at present has 500 beds but an additional block of 600 beds has been planned and site formation commenced in early March, 1967, but work has been seriously delayed by unforeseen cir- cumstances. When completed, there will be a total of 1,100 beds in this hospital as subsidiary accommodation for Queen Elizabeth Hospital and for chest discases requiring both medical and surgical management. 89. The Pulmonary Tuberculosis Unit and the Thoracic Surgical Unit in the hospital now 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 51)
90. This hospital, under the clinical supervision of the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Hong Kong is the main specialist obstetric hospital in Hong Kong with 238 beds. It is the teaching centre in obstetrics for medical undergraduates and the training school for midwives.
91. About 95% of admissions were booked cases. These were mainly primigravidae, grand mulliperae and cases with previous or present complications that required specialist care. The emergency admissions were referred mostly from Government Maternity Homes. There were two maternal deaths among 5,378 deliveries, one due to rupture of uterus and the other to disseminated lupus erythematosus.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Custle Peak Hospital (See table 52)
92. Continued efforts to turn the hospital into a modern therapeutic community have resulted in a judicious liberalization of control over patients. Except for two closed wards for patients involved in Court proceedings, most of the wards are in various degrees 'open', having free access to their own gardens. Two wards are never locked, the patients housed therein being convalescent and receiving intensive atten- tion to prepare them for discharge. Some patients travel daily to Tsuen Wan to work in factories for a short period of rehabilitation prior to final discharge and many are given permission to go freely within hospital.
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