354. Consultant services are provided mainly by specialists in private practice whose services are given voluntarily.
355. The major part that the Tung Wah Hospitals play in the work of the Colony medical service is indicated by the following Table:
Hospital
Kwong Wah
Tung Wah
Tung Wah Eastern
Total
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Beds
Total im-patients
Total out-patient uttendances
404
39.613
[88,552
371
11,106
102.303
320
7,991
143.350
1,097
58,710
434,205
356. Planning has started for the rebuilding and extension of the Kwong Wah Hospital in Kowloon, The work is expected to extend over five years and when completed will provide a modern hospital of 1,238 beds. This is complementary to the Government plans to build the New Kowloon Hospital of 1,350 beds.
The Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
357. This hospital, operated by the London Missionary Society, has 276 beds for general medical and surgical treatment and includes a large and modern maternity section of seventy beds. There is also a large out-patient department. The hospital caters for all classes of patients but the major part of the work is amongst the poor. Again this valuable contribution towards the Colony's medical service is supported by a substantial subvention from Government funds. During the year 7,104 in-patients were treated and there were 58,795 out-patient uttendances. The Pok Oi Hospital
358. This hospital of sixty beds, situated near Yuen Long in the New Territories, is a charitable hospital in the Chinese tradition. It is maintained by a Board of Directors and is largely supported by charit- able donations augmented by an annual Government subvention. Originally, hospital treatment was mainly by traditional Chinese Herbal methods, but these have now largely given way to treatment by western medicine.
359. Two Government Medical Officers are seconded to this hospital to augment the medical staff. The Directors have plans in hand to build
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a new section of the hospital giving accommodation for an additional sixty patients.
360. There were 2,681 in-patients in the hospital during 1957 and 68,437 out-patient attendances were recorded.
Hay Ling Chau Leprosarium
361. This institution, which is maintained by the Mission to Lepers Hong Kong Auxiliary has accommodation for 580 lepers; it is situated on the former Nun Island now renamed Hei Ling Chau, which may bc translated 'Island of Happy Healing'. There is residential accommoda- tion for leprosy patients as well as ward accommodation for surgical treatment and for those in need of other hospital care. The largely self-contained community in the Leprosarium is engaged in agriculture and pig-farming. Rehabilitation by the teaching of other trades in the workshops is an important activity. There is a school for children under treatment and there are large and active troops of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides.
362. A close liaison is maintained between Hei Ling Chau and the Social Hygiene Division of the Medical Department.
Hospitals for Tuberculosis
363. Mention has been made earlier in this report of the work of the Grantham and Ruttonjee Hospitals and the Freni Memorial Convalescent Home maintained by the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association,
364. The Haven of Hope Sanatorium run by the Church World Service on a site in Junk Bay has accommodation for one hundred cases of tuberculosis. Patients are admitted through various Medical Missionary organizations and the surgical aspect of the service is provided by the Nethersole Hospital. Situated adjacent to Rennie's Mill Camp, the Sanatorium also provides an out-patient tuberculosis clinic in the Camp,
OUT-PATIENT SERVICES
365. At Appendices, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are records of the attendances at the various hospitals, both Government and Government-assisted, at clinics, Health Centres and Public Dispensaries throughout the Colony. There is a total of fifty six units at which these services are available to the general public. In addition there are two travelling dispensaries, operating from Tai Po and Yuen Long which serve the more isolated areas of the New Territories that can be reached by road.
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