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of the new out-patients department has led to provi- sion being made for one House Surgeon.
Owing to the increasing amount of X-Ray and Massage work at each of the Goverment Hospitals a scheme has been instituted for training Chinese Radio-
graphic and Massage assistants. At present there is one volunteer Masseuse who has worked since January, 1933, without salary but this is not a satisfactory arrangement and provision for a salary for the se
Probationers is now made.
The total vote for the Medical Department shows an increase of $34,644 which goes but a very small way towards satisfying what my Honourable friend the Direc- tor of Medical and Sanitary Services regards as the full requirements of the Colony in the matter of modern mcdi- cal and health services. It is, however, as much as the Government considers the Colony can properly afford in these difficult times.
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$44,000 is provided under Sub-Head 7 - Conser- vancy. As Honourable Members are already aware, having approved of special provision for the current year, has been found necessary for Government to undertake directly through the Sanitary Department the conservancy work formerly carried out by contractors who in former days paid Government for the right to remove nightsoil from the Colony to the interior of China where it was