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1925-Un Long Dispensary established with a dresser in charge.
1928-European M.O. appointed with part-time duties in the New Territories.
1929-Proposals submitted by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for:-
(a) Motor Travelling Dispensary for Northern District.
(b) Dispensary Launch for the Islands the boating population and those villages which can only be reached by water.
1930--Government appointed a Committee to make enquiries into the question of Sanitation and Registration of Births and Deaths in the New Territories.
Periodical visits of medical practitioners to the New Territories arranged by the New Territories Medical Benevolent Society and the St. John Ambulance Brigade.
1931 First Aid Stations established at Kam Tin and Fan Ling by St. John Ambulance Brigade.
Medical Benevolent Society increases its activities.
1932-Government placed on the roads a fully equipped motor travelling dispensary for dispensing both medicines and treatment to the villages near the road.
Proposals to provide a Dispensary Launch had to be postponed owing to the financial crisis.
Proposals to erect dispensaries at Tsun Wan and Cheung Chau were abandoned as the voluntary benevolent societies had established centres there. Government accepted from Sir Robert Ho Tung a sum of $100,000 and a plot of land for the erection and part maintenance of a Welfare Centre at the 32nd mile near Fanling.
Government accepted from Mr. Ruttonjee the offer to erect and hand over to the Medical Department a Dispensary at Sham Tseng at the 13th mile West road.
The New Territories Medical Benevolent Society opened a maternity home at Tsun Wan and centres at Tuen Mun Ping Shan and Shatin.
The St. John Ambulance Brigade opened centres at Taipo, Un Long, San Tin, Sha Tau Kok, Sai Kung and Cheung Chau, and a cottage hospital for women and children at Kam Tin.
An effort was made to enforce the Births and Deaths Ordinance which was applied to the New Territories in 1911 but which up to date had remained a dead letter.