Facilities for diagnosis and treatment are fairly widely svaltered. A number of the Chinese hospitals run special out- patient clinics for the purpose and much of the work is done privately. Very little information in These services of a statistical nature is available. The largest single service organised for this purpose is the Government Anti Tuberculosis Service, instituted as a special service in 1947. The amount contributed from the different sources may be assessed from the notification returna.
From
(0) Anti Tuhurmulasis service
60
(b) Condition on first attendance. Not tuberculosia Tuberculosis (1) Active
3,44
4,107
(2) Inactive or healed
2,484
Suspicious
1,161
Diagnosis not completed
(patients did not re-attaud}
3,220
13,316
(e) Extent of disease.
2,736
(6) Private practitioners
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537
(c) Hospitals, Clinics etc., including other
Government Institutions
3,006
6,279
Government Anti Tuberculosis Service.
The ftovernment Anti-tuberculosis service provides free diagnostic service available to all, either for the use of private practitioners or for voluntary attendance by the patients them- selves. It is now in its second year of operation. The principal clinic is at Harcourt Health Centre where daily morning sessions for diagnosis and afternoon sessions for treatment are held. Subsidiary clinics are held weekly in various outlying districts for the convenience of residents in these areas and are visited by the medical staff of the central clinic.
Details of clinic attendances are as follows:
A. Harcourt Health Centre.
(N) Attendances.
First Visits-referred by (0) private practitioners
468
(b) hospitala
927
voluntary attendances
11,717
contacta
204
13,316
Re-visits
52,421
Total
66,739
Bilateral cases outnumbered unilateral cases by 2 to 1. As yet no established classification scheme las buen introduced.
B. Subsidiary Clinics.
(a) AttendanCES.
Ist Visit
Re-visit
Un Long
158
305
Taipo
120
235
Sai Kung
20
G (In operation only
a few weeks)
Aberdeen
170
337
477
913
(b) Diagnosis.
Free from tuberculosis Tuberenlosin
200
187
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477
Hospital Accommodation.
A total of 281 beds is available in government institutions for the treatment of pulmonary cases, Those are distributed as follows:
Queen Mary Hospitul
Lai Chi Kok Cheung Chau
*
JJ
46
204
31
These beda, upon whom government servants have prior claims, are otherwise being set aside for early eases. Queen Mary Hospital provides all necessary surgical treatment and patients are kept there for short periods only being transferred to the other institutions to complete convalescence. Tai Chi Kok Hospital, originally built as a temporary institution, provides the bulk of the available beds. The accommodation and facilities provided are far from ideal and the lack of space and the fact that parts of the hospital are used for other purposes makes the provision of sanatorium routine a very difficult inatter, Useful work is,