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(f) Special war measures.
37. Mention should be made of the scheme for the medical defence of the Colony which was brought up to date during 1939. This involved the planning of first aid posts, casualty clearing and relief hospitals, the recruitment and training of personnel and the collecting of ambulances, stretchers, instruments, dressings, and so on.
Under the Compulsory Service Ordinance, 1939, some 1,225 British subjects were medically examined for the purpose of the Ordinance. The tabulated results are as follows:-
Age group. Total ATable III.
This compares with the following figures published in relation to similar examinations for the Militia in the United Kingdom in the summer of 1939:-
Total Grade I. Grade II. Grade III. Grade IV. 2,443 4.9 1,293 2.6 49,586 41,297 83.3 4,553 9.2Table IV.
A voluntary blood donor system was inaugurated in readiness for eventualities and a very satisfactory response was obtained to an appeal for donors-chiefly from members of the European community.
(g) Miscellaneous items.
38. A deputy director of health services was appointed at the end of 1939. This brings a stage nearer the much needed reorganization of the Health Division of the Medical Department, particularly vis à vis the sanitary inspectorate which has been independent of the health authorities so far.
(h) Social hygiene.
39. An important report was drawn up early in 1939 by a committee under the chairmanship of the Crown Counsel (Mr. M. J. Abbott). Inter alia, the committee recommended additional clinical facilities for the treatment of prostitutes. It is hoped to develop these in 1940 by an expansion of the staff of the Social Hygiene Sub-division of the Medical Department, by the opening of new centres and by domiciliary visits by trained health visitors.
(i) Co-operation with the Hong Kong University and private practitioners.
40. Further links were forged in the chain joining up the Medical Department and the Hong Kong University and local medical practitioners, to the mutual benefit of all concerned and of the community at large. Sir Richard Needham's report to the General Medical Council following his visit to Hong Kong speaks in favourable terms of this satisfactory relationship.
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(f) Special war measures.
37. Mention should be made of the scheme for the medical defence of the Colony which was brought up to date during 1939. This involved the planning of first aid posts, casualty clearing and relief hospitals, the recruitment and training of personnel and the collecting of ambulances, stretchers, instruments, dressings, and so on.
Under the Compulsory Service Ordinance, 1939, some 1,225 British subjects were medically examined for the purpose of the Ordinance. The tabulated results are as follows:-
A
Age Total Fit for general
group.
service.
Table III.
B
Fit for duties on
lines of com-
munication including guards.
0
D
Fit for sedentary Unfit for
duty only.
service.
18-41 727
527
42-55 498 238
72.49
47.79
98 13.48
83
11.42
19 2.61
84
16.87
164
32.93 12 2.41
1,225 765
62.45
182 14.86 247
20.16 31 2.53
This compares with the following figures published in relation to similar examinations for the Militia in the United Kingdom in the summer of 1939:-
Table IV.
Total
Grade I.
Grade II.
Grade III.
Grade IV.
2,443 4.9 1,293 2.6
49,586 41,297 83.3 4,553 9.2
A voluntary blood donor system was inaugurated in readiness for eventualities and a very satisfactory response was obtained to an appeal for donors-chiefly from members of the European community.
(g) Miscellaneous items.
38. A deputy director of health services was appointed at the end of 1939. This brings a stage nearer the much needed reorganization of the Health Division of the Medical Department, particularly vis à vis the sanitary inspectorate which has been independent of the health authorities so far.
(h) Social hygiene.
39: An important report was drawn up early in 1939 by a committee under the chairmanship of the Crown Counsel (Mr. M. J. Abbott). Inter alia, the committee recommended additional clinical facilities for the treatment of prostitutes. It is hoped to develop these in 1940 by an expansion of the staff of the Social Hygiene Sub-division of the Medical Department, by the opening of new centres and by domiciliary visits by trained health visitors.
(i) Co-operation with the Hong Kong University and private practitioners.
40. Further links were forged in the chain joining up the Medical Department and the Hong Kong University and local medical practitioners, to the mutual benefit of all concerned and of the community at large. "Sir Richard Needham's report to the General Medical Council following his visit to Hong Kong speaks in favourable terms of this satisfactory relationship.
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