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Beds for non-pulmonary cases are available, in small numbers, in general hospitals.
No colony for "good chronics" exist, and this is an addition which might be considered in future years, when circumstances permit.
Clinics
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(1) The Harcourt Health Centre is the main clinic for the island of
Hong Kong itself. Good work is being done by the staff under dis- couraging conditions, for the building was not constructed as a clinic, there is inadequate waiting room, large numbers of patients choke the corridors, there is no x-ray plant and no room to put one if it were available.
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A new clinic was approved, the site selected, and plans passed, but construction has unfortunately been postponed. I earnestly hope that the Government will proceed with this project at the earliest possible moment.
A new clinic, planned for Kowloon on the mainland, will be completed at the end of 1950 or early in 1951. This will be a specially- designed building, complete with all facilities, and will relieve considerably the pressure on the Harcourt Clinic.
Certain small clinics, at various places in the Colony, are operated under the control of staff from the main clinic. Although far from perfect, they are doing good work and are to be encouraged.
Apart from the prohibitive cost of erection, the indefinite multiplication of clinics is not advised, for the same reason as applies to in-patient beds.
Laboratories
A good laboratory exists in Queen'Mary's Hospital and in Kowloon. Simpler diagnostic ones are found in the other hospitals and in the Harcourt Clinic.
The new Kowloon Clinic is being eruipped by UNICEF.
MMR.
Two 35 m.m. Watson units exist and have been used for restricted survey work, etc.
One 35 m.m unit will be incorporated in the mobile clinic-dispensary to be provided by UNICEF.
Aid from UNICEF.
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The mobile clinic-dispensary will be used to tour Hong Kong and Kowloon. When not in use for this purpose, it will be stationed alongside the Harcourt Clinic, where its x-ray unit will relieve the pressure on the existing arrangement, whereby patients for x-ray are sent by road to Queen Mary's Hospital a distance of several miles.
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The tuberculosis laboratory equipment and the filing cabinets will be installed in the new Kowloon clinic and will be most valuable. I suggest that these items should not be sent until the end of 1950, when the clinic is expected to be ready.
Fellowships: I have interviewed Dr. A.S. Moodie and find that he already has tuberculosis experience and will be in charge of Tuberculosis Services when he returns. I consider him a very suitable man for the UNICEF fellowship.