Lai Chi Kok Female Prison. Hospital.
225. This small hospital of 12 beds is situated within the precincts of the Colony's female prison. It consists of one large ward and a combined surgical dressing-room and office. Medical supervision is exercised by the Medical Superintendent of the Lai Chi Kok Hospital, who visits the prison daily. Total admissions numbered 72, of which 9 were maternity cases.
Government Assisted Hospitals
226. These number 6 and they are operated by charitable institutions. Three are the responsibility of the Tung Wah Board of Directors, and one each of the London Missionary Society and the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association and the Board of Directors of the Pok Di Hospital.
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.
227. The Tung Wah Board of Directors, whose charitable activities are not restricted to medical matters, are responsible for the running of three hospitals, two on Hong Kong Island, namely, the Tung Wah Hospital and the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, and one in Kowloon, the Kwong Wah Hospital. The first named with 495 beds is the largest, while the Kwong Wah Hospital has 404 beds and the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital 320. The administration of these hospitals is vested in the Tung Wah Hospital Medical Committee which consists of the three prin- cipal Directors of the Board, the Medical Superintendents of the three hospitals and two advisors. The Director of Medical and Health Services is the Chairman. The object of these institu- tions is to provide for the sick poor, and treatment is free, but there are, in each hospital, a small number of private beda for which charges are levied.
228. Although the bed strength of these institutions is as stated above, there are always considerably more persons being treated than these figures indicate, in fact as many as 200 more. In certain sections of the hospitals, particularly those devoted to tuberculosis cases and cases of chronic illness, there is extreme overcrowding.
229. Each of these hospitals has a nurses training school which is recognized by the Colony's Nursing Board. The medium of instruction is Chinese.
230. Standards of equipping and staffing in these institutions are not as high as in the Government Hospitals but, nevertheless, fine work is carried out and the value of the hospitals to the community ią very great indeed. During the year, the total number of in-patients treated in the three hospitals was 47,589 As compared with 43,782 in the previous year. Total out- patient attendances numbered 271,064, as compared with 218,509 in 1952.
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital.
231. This hospital is owned and operated by the London Missionary Society but receives financial assistance from Government. For the financial year 1953/54 the Government subvention amounted to $611,700. The hospital has accom- mudation for 178 general in-patients and for maternity cases. During the year under review, the hospital was busier than ever before. Admissions numbered 5,135 as compared with 5,806 in the previous year. In the maternity section there were 1,506 births and maternal deaths numbered 6. Out-patients treated numbered 62,435 as compared with 45,024 in 1952. Resident medical staff numbered 8. The hospital is a recognized school for the training of nurses and it is also recognized as an approved institution for the purpose of providing posts for house officers under the provisions of the Medical Register (Amendment) (No. 3) Ordinance which follow those of the Medical Act 1951 of the United Kingdom.
Ruttonjee Sanatorium,
292. This institution is owned and operated by the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association, but the day-to-day manage- ment is vested in a Sanatorium Management Board of which the Director of Medical and Health Services is a member. The number of beds available was 280 and these were reserved for the pulmonary form of the disease. Priority of admission is
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