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LEGISLATIV

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Meeting to be held on Wednesday, 7th Dooember, 1960, at 2.30 p.m.

ORDER OF BUSINESS,

CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON 23RD NOVEMBER, 1960,

PAPERS TO BE LAID.

QUESTIONS.

(1)

(2)

Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, pursuant to notice, will ask the following

question (-

In view of a proposal reported recently in the press that a

system of compulsory, and therefore presumably free, education up to the age of 15 should be introduced, is Government in possession of an estimate of what this would cost?

Mr. R.C. Lee, pursuant to notice, will ask the following

questions :-

1.

2.

According to the reports which appeared in the local press on the inquest into the death of a five year old child, the evidence aboved that in a period of "three months the Kowloon Hospital handled 6,000 cases of which 1,000 cases required Xray examination because of bead injuries. How many out of that 6,000 were hospitalized?

And of the 1,000 cases that required Iray, how many of them were actually Xrayed and how many of them were hospitalizeä?

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In view of the finding of the Coroner that there was lack of consideration on the part of the hospital doctors concerned, will the Honorable Director give an assurance that every patient attending Government Hospital will, in future, receive careful consideration and attention and will not he refused admission, particularly in a casualty case where hospitalization is in the best interest of the patient?

3. Will the Honourable Director supply detailed information as

to the existing facilities for receiving casualty cases in Hong Kong and in Kowloon

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.

(1) Allowances Resolution.

The Colonial Secretary to move the following resolution :-

WHEREAS:

(1) the late Nand Singh at the time of his death held the

rank of Lance Sergeant of the Hong Kong Police;

(2) the anid Nand Singh died as the result of an air-raid on

Hong Kong in April, 1945;