354. A school is maintained at the Sanatorium by the Hong Kong Branch of the British Red Cross Society for the primary education of "child patients.
OUT-PATIENT SERVICES
355. At Appendices 10, 11, 12 and 13 are records of the attendances at the out-patient departments of various hospitals, both Government and Government-assisted, and 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 respectively, which serve the more isolated areas of the New Territories that can be reached by road.
356. Regular specialist out-patient clinics for tuberculosis, ophthal- mology, social hygiene and maternal and child health are held at a number of these out-patient centres,
357. Owing to the very large volume of work to be undertaken it is necessary to hold a number of night clinics at seven centres. Held from 6 p.m. to midnight these night sessions are attended to capacity and have proved a welcome and significant augmentation of services strained to the utmost during the hours of daylight,
358. New developments during the year in the rural areas have included the provision of a clinic and maternity home on Peng Chau [sland (South). The construction of the buildings was sponsored as a joint effect by the Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Peng Chau Rural Committee. The Clinic was opened by His Excellency the Governor on August 28th and was then handed over to Government, which has accepted responsibility for the staffing and maintenance of the institution.
359. A most notable development was the inauguration, in May. of a floating clinic service for the benefit of remote villages along the eastern seaboard of the New Territories. The m.v. 'Chee Hong', pre- sented by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and carrying a doctor, nurse, inoculator and vaccinator, is now employed full-time on a regular schedule of visits to these areas. The service provided is greatly appre- ciated by the villagers.
360. Work having commenced on the site of the new Shek Pik Reservoir on Lantao Island, a Medical Post, in charge of a Senior Male Charge Nurse, has been established in the area to care for the medical needs of the labour force and of the inhabitants of nearby villages.
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Arrangements have been made for a helicopter to be available to evacuate casualties or medical emergencies in urgent need of hospital treatment.
361. The new Tai O Clinic and Maternity Home, also a gift from the Hong Kong Jockey Club, was completed on March 31st, 1959. This large new institution, with a total of 12 maternity beds and 4 beds for medical emergencies also maintains general and specialized clinics. Tai O, which is on the farthest tip of Lantao Island, has thus had an old and inade. quate Public Dispensary replaced by a modern unit which is designed to cope with the expected increase in the population of that area for some lime lo come,
362. As a result of the increased services provided, out-patient attendances at the various clinics in the rural areas increased by approxi- mately 40,000 (or some 14%) during the year,
General
SPECIALIST SERVICES
363. There are Government Specialists in charge of clinical units of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, dentistry, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, psychiatry, radiotherapy, radiodiagnosis, social hygiene (which includes dermatology, leprosy and venereal diseases), thoracic surgery and tuber- culosis. In addition the Professors and certain Senior Lecturers of University clinical units act as consultants in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics, pathology and paediatrics.
364. Certain of the Government Specialists act as Honorary Con- sultants to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals in surgery, radiology. orthopaedics and otorhinolaryngology.
RADIOLOGICAL SERVICE
365. Under the direction of the Senior Specialist in Radiology, this service comprises three sections dealing with radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy and radiation physics. The headquarters of the Service are in the Queen Mary Hospital, where the radiotherapy is carried out and the physics workshop is situated. There are specialists in clinical charge of the radiodiagnostic and radiotherapeutic sections with a Physicist respon- sible for the physics and workshop section.
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