102. Typhoid admissions remained comparable with the previous year. The disease occurs mainly amongst children and adolescents and is very often of a mild character. Measles however showed a further increase in incidence and in mortality; in almost every instance bron- chopneumonia was the cause of death and unfortunately many of these children continued to be admitted in a moribund condition.
OTHER GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS
103. Other hospitals maintained by Government are the St. John Hospital, serving the island of Cheung Chau and neighbouring islands of the western sea-board; the Wan Chai Hospital for the care of female patients with skin diseases; the South Lantau Hospital serving the villages on the south-west coast of Lantau Island; and six hospitals within prison compounds at Stanley Prison, Victoria Prison, Lai Chi Kok Female Prison, the Tai Lam Prison for convicted drug addicts, the Tong Fuk Prison and the Chi Ma Wan Prison.
OUT-PATIENT SERVICES
(See tables 54-56)
104. Pressure remained heavy throughout the year on all 43 general out-patient clinics and also on most specialized ones. Trends during the past ten years are shown in Figure 12.
NO. GF ATTENDANCES IN MILLIONS
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FIGURE 11
OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCES 1938 – 1967
TOTAL ATTENDANCES
NEW ATTENDANCES
1960
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105. New facilities which became available during the year are detailed in paragraphs 163 to 165 of this report.
106. In addition to general out-patient services, regular out-patient sessions were maintained at a number of clinics by staff of specialized units. Evening and public holiday out-patient sessions continued to be held at eight clinics in the more densely populated areas. The more remote areas of the New Territories continued to be served by two mobile dispensaries and two floating clinics' while the 'flying doctor" service to more isolated and inaccessible villages was maintained.
SPECIALIST SERVICES
107. There are Government Specialist Clinical Units in medicine. surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthesiology, dentistry, neuro- surgery. opthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, paediatrics, psychiatry, radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy, social hygiene, thoracic surgery and tuberculosis. In addition, the Professors and certain Senior Lecturers of the University Faculty of Medicine act as consultants in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, ortho- paedics, pathology and paediatrics. A number of Government Specialists act as Honorary Consultants to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and others serve as part-time lecturers in the University clinical depart-
ments.
RADIOLOGICAL SERVICES
(See tables $7-58)
108. The Medical Department Institute of Radiology operates a service consisting of Radiodiagnosis, Radiotherapy, including the use of radioisotopes in the diagnosis and treatment of certain diseases, Radia- tion Physics and Clinical Photography. It serves mainly Government institutions but free consultant services are available to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and to the Pok Oi Hospital in the New Territories and such services are also available to medical practitioners in private practice. The Institute maintains a radiation monitoring and protection service for the Colony, undertakes teaching of medical students of the University of Hong Kong in the fundamentals of radiodiagnosis and radiotherapy and operates a Colony-wide Cancer Registry.
109. During the year the Yau Ma Tei X-Ray Survey Centre and the Yau Ma Tei Chest Clinic X-ray Department were opened. The Radiotherapy Division at Queen Mary Hospital moved into a new department in the Professorial Block where a new Caesium-137
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