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(p) New Territories Medical Centres & Maternity Homes.
206. There are 10 fixed medical centres operating in the New Territories together with two mobile units. The work of these fixed and mobile dispensaries is co-ordinated by an officer combining the functions of a medical officer and medical officer of health. Table 21 gives a summary of the work done by these units.
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TABLE 21.
Medical Centres-New Territories.
Out-patiente
Deliveries
Dispensaries
New
Cases
Attendances In-patients | Domiciliary
11,389
28,586
551
16
1,927
4,859
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Shataukok
2,048
7,073
www
19
Un Long
11,202
33,340
570
112
Sen Hui
1,822
3,823
I
147
Sai Kung
3,449
6,547
44
62
Tai O
8,709
15,761
263
T2
Silver Mine Bay
434
553
Ting Chau
1,552
2,971
Travelling (East)
2,689
5,314
(West)
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1,980
3,192
Total
50,801
112,008
1,595
150
(q) Ambulance Service.
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208. The Medical Department provides an ambulance service for all parts of the Colony for cases other than accidents and street emergencies which are dealt with by the Fire Brigade, This service is provided free of charge for all patients. The total mileage run by Medical Department transport during the year was 281,239 miles; of these 129,261 miles were run by the ambulance service.
209. There were 13 ambulances in use, 6 in Hong Kong, 6 in Kowloon and 2 in the New Territories. 6,021 patients were carried by the ambulances in Hong Kong and 15,120 in Kowloon,
(r) X-ray Department.
210. The transfer of the Royal Navy to their own hospital at the beginning of the year released a considerable amount of space in the X-ray Department and og a result the physiotherapy department at the Queen Mary Hospital was able to move back into its pre-war quarters. Table 22 gives a summary of the work done in the X-ray Department during 1949.
TABLE 22.
Work done in the X-ray department,
Queen Mary
Kowloon
Examinations made
Chest
Hospital.
Hospital.
51,913
10,419
Bones
4,351
4.098
Abdomen
1,037
5667
Barium Meals
511
186
Intravenous Pyelography...
195
59
Bronchogram
32
3
Cystogram
16
6
Myelogram
3
Retro: pyelogram
Cholecystogram
Pleurogram
CholangiogramO
Ventriculogram ...............
63
18
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İLARNING
206. In October 1948 it was decided to organize the Ho Tung Dispensary to enable a small number of general in-patients to be admitted, primarily for members of the Police Force who would otherwise be "sick in quarters". 112 patients were treated during 1949.
207. The Ruttonjee Dispensary which was originally presented to the Government by Mr. J. H. Ruttonjee, C.B.E. was formally handed back to him in January 1949.
Encephalogram
Arteriogram
Salpingogram
Dental
9
1
1
90
2
385
478
58,629
15,831