to earn their living. Two wards were especially set up for this purpose. The usual therapeutic measures, including occupational therapy, group therapy and re-education, were intensively used, but emphasis was placed on training in activities having a direct bearing on their work after leaving hospital. By these means a number of patients found employment while still in hospital. They were later discharged for full-time employment. Planning continued for another mental hospital which will be sited at Lai Chi Kok.
99. A wide variety of social and recreational activities was organized for the patients. Television sets were installed in all the wards during the year.
Psychiatric Centres (Table 56)
100. The Yau Ma Tei Psychiatric Centre provides treatment for both out and day-patients, including follow-up cases from Castle Peak Hospital. Its facilities include a Child Psychiatric Doit. The Day Hospital was found most useful for the treatment of psychoneurotics and disturbed adolescents and children. On Hong Kong Island the Hong Kong Psychiatric Centre continued to see out- and day-patients, follow-up cases from Castle Peak Hospital and forensic cases. The centre moved into its new premises in the David Trench Rehabilita- tion Centre opened in March 1971. In addition to these centres, psychiatric services were provided for the Psychiatric Observation Unit in Victoria Reception Centre and for the Tai Lam Centre for Women. A 67-bed Psychiatric Unit in the West Wing of the Kowloon Hospital has been completed.
New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
101. 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. A hostel on the Farm accommodates 22 discharged mainly chronic schizophrenic patients at a time. The Association also owns a 'Half-way Home' in Hung Hom-a hostel accommodating 67 selected discharged patients from Castle Peak Hospital. These patients spend a transitional period there before returning to normal society.
Drug Addiction
102.
A Drug Addiction Liaison Officer from this Department maintains close liaison with the Action Committee Against Narcotics
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(ACAN), other voluntary agencies and Government Departments con- accted with this work. A bibliography of all important publications on the various aspects of the problem of drug addiction is kept by the Department
103. In November 1970 an anti-narcotic campaign organized jointly by the Medical and Health Department and the Action Committer Against Narcotics was held. The campaign was given the widest publicity. Emphasis was given on the preventive aspect of drug addic- tion particularly towards health education of the young.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITALS
104. 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 pro- vides some accommodation for convalescent cases from the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals.
105. None of the common infectious diseases showed any dramatic variation. However, the overall trend was towards a reduction, both in incidence and mortality. No examples of the major quarantinable diseases were encountered. There is a definite clinical impression that patients are now coming for treatment earlier, and the moribund child admitted in the terminal stage of illness, though not entirely a memory of the past, is now seldom seen,
TANG SHIU KIN HOSPITAL (Table 53)
106. This hospital, built with a substantial donation from Sir Shiu-kio Tang, C.B.E., LL.D., J.P., is situated at Morrison Hill, Hong Kong. Opened in 1969, it replaced the former Eastern Public Dis- pensary and Maternity Home, the Harcourt Health Centre and the Wan Chai Social Hygiene Female Clinic.
107. The hospital is equipped with a casualty department and casualty wards for 40 patients. It has a general out-patient department, a maternal and child health centre, a 36-bed maternity ward, a social bygiene clinic, a skin clinic and an obstetrical and gynaecological clinic. 108. The hospital also contains the head office of the Maternal and Child Health Services and a training school for Health Visitors and Health Auxiliaries. Quarters are available in the hospital for medical
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