Recurrent head totalled $5,755,291. These amounts represent 10.127% of the Colony's total expenditure during the year. This does not include expenditure on environmental sanitation by the Urban Services Depart- ment and the District Administration of the New Territories.
58. The total revenue collected from all sources by the Department totalled $2,843,507.
59. The largest subvention was made to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals which received $9,800,479; in addition, a capital grant of $4,900,000 was made towards the cost of the first phase of the re- development of the Kwong Wah Hospital. Other large subventions were $2,057.767 to the Grantham Hospital, $1,047,960 to the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association and $500,000 to the Mission to Lepers. Hong Kong Auxiliary.
LEGISLATION
60. The following legislation dealing with medical and health matters was enacted during the year 1958/59:
Ordinances:
(i) Pharmacopoeia Ordinance, 1958,
(ii) Medical Registration (Armendment) Ordinance, 1958
"Treatment of diseases of the eye,"
(iii) Medical Registration (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance, 1958-
*Powers of the Council to restore names to the medical register."
(iv) Medical Registration (Amendment) (No. 3) Ordinance, 1958- "Alternative requirements as to experience in certain cases.' (v) Quarantine and Prevention of Disease (Amendment) Ordinance
No. 20 of 1958-
'Power to require evidence of protection against smallpox in certain cases and repeal of the Vaccination Ordinance. 1923.
Rules and Regulations:
(a) Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of Schedule) Order. 1958.
(G.N.A. 52/58).
(b) Poisons List (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1958.
(G.N.A. 56/58).
(c) Poisons (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1958.
(G.N.A. 57/58).
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(d) Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of Schedule) (No. 2) Order,
1958.
(G.N.A. 59/58).
(e) Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of Schedule) Order, 1959.
(G.N.A. 10/59).
(A)
Prevention of the Spread of Infectious Diseases Regulations, 1955Declaration under Reg. 2 (G.NA, 26 of 1958)
'Making ophthalmia neonatorum a notifiable discase." 61. The most important items of legislation were the enactment of the Pharmacopoeia Ordinance, 1958, amendments to the Medical Regis- tration Ordinance, 1957 and the addition of barbitone, pheno-barbitone and their salts to the schedule of dangerous drugs. The Pharmacopoeia Ordinance was enacted to enable the Medical Council to approve the adoption in the Colony of a pharmacopoeia and thus. by giving official recognition to the standards therein specified, to remove uncertainty as to what are the proper ingredients and proportions of drugs bought and sold. This Ordinance further provides for the publication in the Gazere of notification of the adoption of pharmacopoeia which can then be admitted in evidence in the Courts.
62. The amendments to the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1957,
were:
(i) the inclusion of a new Section 30A, which makes it an offence for any person, unless he is a registered medical practitioner or is provisionally registered, to hold himself out as being qualified, competent or willing to undertake the treatment of diseases of the human eye, to prescribe remedies therefor or to give advice in connexion with such treatment,
(i) An amendment to Section 24, which corrected a minor omission in the drafting of the Ordinance and deals with the restoration to the Register of names which were removed before the enact- ment of the 1957 Ordinance.
(i) the inclusion of a new Section 10A which follows the United Kingdom Medical Act 1956 (Amendment) Act 1958. This empowers the Council to recognize experience other than that obtained in employment in a resident capacity in an approved institution as required by Section 9 of the Ordinance. In this way doctors who hold a non-registrable qualification granted before 1st July, 1953 and who subsequently obtained a registrable qualification may be fully registered without having to undergo a further twelve months compulsory internship.
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