Source of

Appointment

Course of Study

Place of Study

Assistant Medical Officer Assistant Medical Officer

Radiotherapy

U.K.

Funds Government

Diploma in Ophthalmology

U.K.

Sino-British

Fellowship Trust

Supervisor and Training

Officer of Health Nurses Nursing Sister

Radiographer

U.K.

Government

Nurse..

Nurse

Nurse

Nurse

Nurse

Dresser

Student Dispenser

Tutor Diploma (Health)

Post-Graduate Couse in

Nursing

Radiotherapy

New Zealand Own expense

UK.

Infant Nursing and

Australia

Mothercraft

Theatre Technique and

U.S.A.

Paediatric Nursing

Midwife Teacher's Diploma

U.K.

Chest Nursing

U.K.

General Surgery and

U.S.A.

Government Own expense

Own expense

Own expense Own expense Own expense

Operating Technique

Sister Tutor Course Dentistry

U.K.

Australia

Governmeal Gaverament

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

507. The following distinguished medical men and women visited the Colony during 1957/58:

(1) Dr. Pauline Stitt, Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, arrived in July to study the Hong Kong Maternal and Child Health Services on behalf of the World Health Organization.

(ii) In August, Sir Harry Wunderly, Director of the Tuberculosis Division of the Australian Department of Health, studied the work of the Government and Government-assisted services engaged in tuberculosis control in the Colony. He submitted a report to Government giving valuable criticism and advice. (ii) Professor Dugald Baird, consultant in Obstetrics of the Nuffield Foundation, visited Hong Kong in October under arrangements made by the Colonial Office for a Pancl of Medical Visitors. (v) Dr. T. Guthe, Chief of the W.H.O. Venereal Disease and Treponematoses section, Geneva, paid a short visit to Hong Kong in December.

(v) Dr. Ralston Paterson, Director of the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute. Manchester, also arrived in December to advise on the planning of the New Kowloon Hospital Radio- therapy Centre.

VI. BUILDING PROGRAMME

508. The Report for 1956/57 made mention of the new clinics to be opened during 1957. The following projects were either completed, under construction or being planned:

(1) The 'Chee Hong', a 70-foot launch, equipped as a floating clinic, was presented to Government by The Hong Kong Jockey Club at a handing-over ceremony on 22nd January, 1958. It will be equipped and staffed by May 1958 when it will commence visits to outlying islands and villages on the eastern seaboard of the New Territories.

(i) The new Central District Health Centre at Kau U Fong, being built by the Hong Kong Jockey Club for presentation to Government, is almost complete and will be opened in April 1958.

(III) The new Dental Clinic at the Kowloon-Canton Railway Terminus is also almost complete and is expected to open in April 1958.

(iv) Plaus for the new Tai O Health Centre are well advanced, and

work should commence soon.

(v) The new Kowloon Public Mortuary is expected to be ready for

use in September 1958.

(vi) A new Maternity Home and Clinic on Peng Chau Island is expected to open in August 1958. This project is a combined effort of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Peng Chau Rural Committee.

(vii) It is expected that work will commence on the new Sai Ying

Pun Polyclinic in August 1958.

(viii) A new Maternity Home and Clinic in Hung Hom, sponsored by the Hung Hom Kai Fong Association, is expected to be in operation towards the end of 1958.

(ix) Planning is continuing on a new Health Centre for Kennedy Town, a similar institution in Yuen Long, and an extension of the X-ray section of the Casualty Department in Kowloon Hospital.

(x) Work has commenced on the site works for the new Kowloon

Hospital.

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