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c) The number of full-time equivalent students in
the three institutions of higher education will thus
have increased from 7,622 in 1971/72 to at least
22,500 in 1980/81.
d) In addition, since 1973 one Teachers' Training
College has been reprovisioned and expanded and one
new college has been opened to meet the demand for
technical teachers. The capacity in teacher-
training colleges is now 3,650 and is unlikely to
require increase.
e) In addition to the institutions in (a) to (d)
there are over 4,000 places in the two principal
private post-secondary colleges.
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
10.
Only nominal fees for consultations
including prescriptions, etc., of HK$1, and of $3 per
day in hospital (with provision for total remission
where necessary), are charged. The development and
expansion of the preventive health service in general and
maternal and child health and tuberculosis work in
particular during the 1950s and '60s has been good. In
the immediate post-war years crowded and insanitary living
conditions and an inadequate water supply resulted in
epidemics of smallpox and cholera, and diseases such as
enteric fever, dysenteries, tuberculosis and malaria were
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