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and dispensaries, the Sanitary Board and the Sanitary
Department. The aim of all is the same, the health of the
people. Let them take counsel together as to how best they
may achieve their aim. Admittedly a difficult question.
with tact and goodwill much more can be done than is the case
at present.
But
4. The Commissioners understand that the Director of Medical
and Sanitary Services has already submitted to Government his
recommendations for the reorganization of the health service
in Hong Kong, and that his report is being considered by a
Committee.
It would be idle therefore for the Commissioners
to go into this matter in detail. They would however stress
the point that it is wasteful to have two separate authorities
within Government for health work.
5. The Commissioners know it has been suggested that the
Medical Department should obtain surgical, medical and
gynaecological specialists. The University already has
eminent experts in each of these branches, and the Commission
can see no necessity why the posts should be duplicated.
fact that Government medical officers are eligible for these
posts should not be forgotten.
6.
dressings,
The
Government should take up with the University authorities
the question of the ordering of 'extras' and the supply of
- the cost of which has to be borne by Government,
for University ward patients in the Government Civil Hospital.
They are ordered far more lavishly by the University
professors than by the Government practitioners The
practice should cease.
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7. With the exception of Victoria Hospital the catering in
Government hospitals is done by contract. The question of
whether it would not be cheaper to do it departmentally, which