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Mobile Dispensaries

One

No mobile dispensary is at present in use in Hong Kong. unit, a gift from UNICEF is expected to arrive in the near future to meet the requirements of outlying districts.

Wass Radiology.

Location

Hong Kong and Kowloon

No, fixed and No, transportable

Two fixed.

Makes

Owned by

Operated by

Maintained by

Size of film

How are films

interpreted?

No, of personnel

What steps are taken for checking cases considered to be significant or doubt- ful?

Watsons & Sons (Electro- Medical) Ltd. London.

Hong Kong Government

Radiological Dept.,Hong Kong Medical Department.

ditto

35 millimetres.

Projection on screens.

Large films are taken of all suspicious cases re- vealed by mass radiology and of positive cases when required.

Mass radiology examinations have been carried out on limited scale only. Apart from examination of employees in the Government Service which is planned on an annual basis, examinations may be done free of charge on behalf of private firms in the Colony subject to their undertaking financial responsibility for treatment and welfare of cases discovered, Only a few of the employers have taken advantage of this scheme,

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