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Siggins, C.S.M.M.G., B.P.A., as Masseuse and Electro-therapist. Miss M. H. Hughes C.S.M.M.G., B.P.A., as 2nd Masseuse and Electro-therapist arrived in the Colony on 10th February. Miss Siggins left the Colony on long leave on 9th April. Miss N. Hill C.S.M.M.G. was appointed part-time Assistant in August.
380. A start was made this year to train Chinese nurses in massage, etc., and Nurse Chun commenced training on 1st January.
She made excellent progress but left for private reasons at the end of the year. The experiment showed that competent Chinese Nurses can be readily trained as masseuses.
381. The increase in the work of all branches noted in 1931 was maintained. The following table shows the figures for the three years 1930, 1931 and 1932.
1930 1931 1932 Massage and electrical treatment 8,934 Radiological examinations 6,239 9,498 11,902 Films exposed 2,464 2,696 3,309 3,653 4,521382. Of the total radiological examinations 2,496 were done at the Government Civil Hospital Victoria and 200 at the Kowloon Hospital. Of the films exposed 4,202 were exposed at the Government Civil Hospital and 319 at Kowloon Hospital.
383. The above figures show that the amount of radiological work done in Victoria is twelve times that done in Kowloon. The reasons for this are that the Kowloon apparatus is old and constantly going out of order and the staff is concentrated at the Government Civil Hospital.
384. Considering that the population of Victoria is to that of Kowloon as 4 to 3, facilities for X-Ray work in Kowloon should be improved.
385. As in the previous year, considerable use was made of the radium lent to the hospital by the Committee of the Matilda Hospital.
GOVERNMENT DISPENSARIES.
386. The Dispensaries maintained by Government during the year under review were the Taipo Dispensary and the Un Long Dispensary, both in the New Territories. Details with regard to these will be found in Section X which deals with the New Territories.