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The Medical Department's Organisation during 1933.
514. Under the scheme for medical expansion the New Territories were divided into Western and Eastern districts with headquarters respectively at Un Long and Taipo. Each district is in charge of a Chinese Medical Officer who is responsible to the Medical Officer of the New Territories.
515. The duties of the District Medical Officer include:-
(1) Supervision of the Government dispensaries in his district.
(2) Domiciliary visits to indigent cases too ill to attend the dispensary.
(3) Emergency calls for all classes.
(4) Accompanying the Travelling Dispensary three times a week visiting villages in the district.
(5) Reconnaissance and propaganda.
(6) Spleen surveys.
(7) Periodical visits to Police Stations.
516. The Shing Mun Dam area was constituted a special medical district in charge of a special Chinese Medical Officer responsible to the Medical Officer New Territories for general medical work and to the Malariologist for anti-malaria operations.
517. The Staff for the New Territories included:-
1 European M.O. resident in Kowloon.
1 Chinese M.O., 1 dresser and 1 midwife resident at the Government Dispensary at Un Long.
1 Chinese M.O., 1 dresser and 1 midwife resident at the Government Dispensary at Taipo.
1 First grade dresser attached to the Travelling Dispensary.
1 Midwife at Cheung Chau.
1 Midwife at Tai O.
518. There was a fully equipped dispensary at Un Long and another at Taipo, and there were in course of construction up to date health centres and dispensaries at Ku Tung and Sham Tseng.
519. With the completion of the new buildings there will be Government Centres in the South, West, North and East sections of the fifty mile circular road which surrounds the main portion of the mainland of the Territories.
M 107
The Medical Department's Organisation during 1933.
514. Under the scheme for medical expansion the New Territories were divided into Western and Eastern districts with headquarters respectively at Un Long and Taipo. Each district is in charge of a Chinese Medical Officer who is responsible to the Medical Officer of the New Territories.
515. The duties of the District Medical Officer include:-
(1) Supervision of the Government dispensaries in his dis-
trict.
(2) Domiciliary visits to indigent cases too ill to attend the
dispensary.
(3) Emergency calls for all classes.
(4) Accompanying the Travelling Dispensary three times a
week visiting villages in the district.
(5) Reconnaissance and propaganda.
(6) Spleen surveys.
(7) Periodical visits to Police Stations.
516. The Shing Mun Dam area was constituted a special medical district in charge of a special Chinese Medical Officer responsible to the Medical Officer New Territories for general medical work and to the Malariologist for anti-malaria opera- tions.
517. The Staff for the New Territories included:-
1 European M.O. resident in Kowloon.
1 Chinese M.O., 1 dresser and 1 midwife resident at the
Government Dispensary at Un Long.
1 Chinese M.O., 1 dresser and I midwife resident at the
Government Dispensary at Taipo.
1 First grade dresser attached to the Travelling Dispensary.
1 Midwife at Cheung Chau.
1 Midwife at Tai O.
518. There was a fully equipped dispensary at Un Long and another at Taipo, and there were in course of construction up to date health centres and dispensaries at Ku Tung and Sham Tseng.
519. With the completion of the new buildings there will be Government Centres in the South, West, North and East sections of the fifty mile circular road which surrounds the main portion of the mainland of the Territories.
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