23. The Deputy Director of Medical and Health Services is the chief executive medical and health officer who co-ordinates the work of the Medical and Health Divisions. Each of these divisions is in charge of an Assistant Director. The Principal Matron is the Chief Nursing Officer and administers the Nursing Division which provides nursing, midwifery, health visitor and health sister services.
24. The Health Division, which is the responsibility of the Assistant Director of Health Services, is composed of units dealing with tuber- culosis, malaria, port health and epidemiology, maternal and child health, school health and social hygiene, the latter including venereal diseases, leprosy and dermatology. Each of the component units of the Health Division is in the charge of a Specialist or of a Medical Officer with special experience and training. In addition, advisory services are given to the Urban Services Department, the District Commissioner New Territories and the Labour Department. The Assistant Director of Health Services is Vice-Chairman of the Urban Council. He is assisted in the work of the Division by a Senior Health Officer at Headquarters.
25. The Assistant Director of Medical Services, responsible for the administrative routine of the Medical Division, is assisted by a Senior Medical Officer at Headquarters and by two Senior Medical Officers who are respectively Medical Superintendents of the two Government general hospitals, one on Hong Kong Island and one in Kowloon. There are clinical units of general medicine, general surgery, anaesthesia, ear, nose and throat, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthal mology, orthopaedics, pathology, psychiatry and radiology, each of which works under the clinical direction of a Specialist. There are two infectious diseases hospitals, one on either side of the harbour. The Government Dental Service is under the direction of a Dental Specialist and the Government Chemist is responsible for the work of the Government Laboratory. The work of the Government outpatient clinics throughout the Colony is co-ordinated by the Medical Divisions although certain of the services rendered from these clinics are provided by the Health Division.
26. The Medical-Social, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Services are also part of the Medical Division.
27. The Auxiliary Medical Service, which is a branch of the Civil Defence Services, is administered by the Medical Defence Staff Officer
who is a member of the Medical and Health Department Headquarters staff. The Director of Medical and Health Services is the Unit Controller. 28. The routine administrative secretarial, establishments and clerical work of the Department is under the general direction of the Secretary while the Principal Accountant and his staff deal with the financial and accounting duties. The Boards section is supervised by the Boards Secretary.
29. The pharmaceutical and dispensing activities are the respon- sibility of the Chief Pharmacist who also has inspectorial duties in connexion with the Dangerous Drugs and Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinances.
30. The Chief Hospital Secretary is responsible for the supply of equipment and the day-to-day lay administration of the hospital and clinic services. The hospitals and clinics are grouped into two large units to each of which is posted an Hospital Secretary, Assistant Hospital Secretaries of Executive Officer Grade are posted to the larger and more important institutions within the groups.
31.
Appendix 1 shows the establishment at 31st March. 1959.
PROFESSIONAL REGISTERS
32. There are five statutory bodies dealing with the registration of medical practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and midwives. The Hong Kong Medical Council is responsible for the registration of medical practitioners and has responsibilities in connexion with dis- ciplinary proceedings and offences; it is not an examining body. The Dental Board, Pharmacy Board, Nurses Board and Midwives Board all maintain registers, regulate training, bold examinations leading to registration or enrolment and have disciplinary powers,
33. At the 31st March, 1959 the numbers of persons on the registers were as follows:
Register of Medical Practitioners Register of Dentists
Register of Pharmacista
female
Register of Nurses { malc
Roll of Midwives ...
WORK OF THE STATUTORY COUNCIL AND BOARDS
Medical Council
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789 381
85
1,506
!
85
1,490
34. There were eleven ordinary meetings of the Hong Kong Medical Council and two extra-ordinary meetings, the latter being convened to