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Head 16.-MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Head 16.-MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Sub-heads :-
Approved Estimate, 1939.
Estimate, 1940-41.
i Personal Emoluments
Other Charges.
A.-Staff.
2 Conveyance Allowances
B.- General.
1,743,580
2,421,651
21,500
25,000
3 Artificial Limbs
4 Attendance of medical practitioners
200
250
13,650
5 Bedding and Clothing
25,000
35,000
6 Board for 9 House Officers at $365 per annum each..
3,650
4,104
CED
(1)
(2)
(3)
7 Board and Lodging for 6 Pupil Midwives at $96 per annum each... 8 Books
576
500
1,000 (4)
9 Bonuses to Dispensary Licentiates and Clerks for vaccination
of children and registration of births
10,000
12,500
10 Cleansing Materials
9,000
12,500
11 Dental and other Special Treatment
5,300
500
12 Expenses of Courses of Study and attendance at Medical
Congresses
6,000
6,000
13 Fuel and Light
90,000
140,000
14 Grants to Chaplains for Religious Services.
1,800
2,250
15 Incidental Expenses
4,300
5,500
16 Maintenance of lunatics at Cantou
17 Medical Comforts
18 Medical Expenses for Schools
19 Medicines and Instruments
20 Notification Fees, infectious diseases
21 Nursing and Midwives Board Expenses
22 Provisions for Patients
13,500
21,000
So to ado
(7)
(8)
+
(9)
500
4,500
110,000
1,100
625
5,625
300,000 (10)
3,875 (11)
2,000
4,500 (12)
200,000
250,000
23 Rations for Indian Hospital Warders
1,080
(13)
24 Relief of overcrowding of Chinese Hospitals
70,000
75,000
(7)
25 Rent of Premises for Dispensaries, and Infant Welfare Centre...
4.044
4,680
! (14)
26 Running Expenses of Travelling Dispensary, Motor Ambulances,
Bus etc....
3,250
7,500
(15)
27 Rent of Public Telephones
7,700
9,625
28 Scavening equipment.
29 Transport
900
(16)
3,500
4,375
30 Uniform for Male Staff...
7,800
12,000 (17)
31 Upkeep of Hospital Equipment, etc.
17,000
25,000 (18)
32 Washing
30,000
45,000 (19)
33 X-Ray Apparatus, Running Expenses and Maintenance
22,000
15,200 (20)
34 X-Ray Films
32,750 (21)
Treatment of Opium Addicts..
2,000
(22)
C.-Port Health Officer's Office.
35 Conveyance Allowances, etc.
36 Disinfecting and Fumigating Burean, Running Expenses. 37 Fuel and Light
38 Incidental Expenses, etc.
39 Uniforms..
Carried forward
480
500
(7)
7,000
8,750
625
(1)
800 2,750
1,000
3,440
2,431,330
3,513,675
(1) New item.
(2) Includes provision for Kennedy Town Leper
Settlement taken over by Government.
(3) One House Officer no longer paid Board Allow-
ance.
(4) More reference books required.
(5) Due to New Infant Welfare Centre, West, Leper Settlement and increased accommodation at Mental Hospital.
(6) Considered sufficient
Surgeon.
(7) Considered sufficient.
on appointment of Dental
(8) Expansion of department.
(9) More lunatics sent to Canton.
(10) Previously under-estimated.
credited to revenue.
Sale of stores now
(11) Due to Tuberculosis becoming a notifiable disease.
(12) Extra examiners.
(13) Transferred from Prisons Department, (14) Increased rent. Only three months provision for
Infant Welfare Centre, Kowloon, required.
(15) Two new ambulances.
(16) Scavenging work in New Territories taken over
from the District Offices.
(17) Increase of staff. Prison Hospital Staff taken
over from Prisons Department.
(18) More patients. Expansion of department.
19) More patients. Contract price increased, (20) X-Ray Films now shown separately. More spares
required.
(21) Previously included under Sub-head 33. More
patients.
(22) Considered unnecessary.