New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
106. This Association, with the close co-operation of the Mental Health Service, operates the New Life Rehabilitation Farm adjacent to Castle Peak Hospital for the benefit of patients requiring a period of orientation before returning to full social and economic activity in the community. The Association also owns a 'Half-way House' in Hung Hom-a hostel where selected discharged patients from Castle Peak Hospital spend a transitional period before returning to normal society,
Drug Addiction
107. An attempt has been made by the Psychiatric Social Work Unit of the Drug Addiction Section of the Mental Health Service to follow-up the voluntary patients who were wholly treated in the former Castle Peak Drug Addiction Treatment Centre before the opening of the Shek Kwo Chau Centre. These patients have remained in close contact with the Medical Social Worker of the Castle Peak Centre and have organized themselves into an informal social and recreational group so that it was possible to know with considerable accuracy whether or not they had relapsed. The total number followed-up was 314. A pamphlet outlining the scientific basis of assessing the effectiveness of treatment and the results of follow-up of this group of patients has been printed for general information
OTHER GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS
111. 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, Tai Lam Prison for convicted drug addicts. Tong Fuk Prison and Chi Ma Wan Prison.
OUT-PATIENT SERVICES
(See tables 54-56)
112. Pressure remained heavy throughout the year on all 43 general out-patient clinics and also on most specialized ones. Trends during the past 10 years are shown in Figure 13.
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FIGURE 13
OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCES 1939 - 1968
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITALS
108. There are two hospitals which admit patients suffering from infectious diseases the Sai Ying Pun Hospital on Hong Kong Island and the Lai Chi Kok Hospital in Kowloon; the latter also provides some accommodation for convalescent cases from the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals.
109. The general pattern of admissions followed the trend experi- enced in previous years. There was a further reduction in the number of admissions for diphtheria and a slight increase for poliomyelitis.
110. Typhoid admissions showed a definite decrease compared with previous years. The disease occurred mainly amongst children and adolescence and was often extremely mild. Measles showed a welcome drop both in incidence and mortality. However, as in previous years, children continued to be admitted in the terminal stages of post-measles broncho-pneumonia.
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NO, OF ATTENDANCES IN MILLIONS
6
TOTAL
ATTENDANCES
NEW
ATTENDANCES
*
62
65
師
YEAR
31
67