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We have furnished reasons for the standards of accommodation, facilities and services required.
VI-X. We have described the existing medical, surgical, obstetrical and investigational facilities, including provision for the aged and infirm.
X. We have dealt with the question of closer co-operation between the Government Medical Department, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, and private registered medical practitioners.
B. Conclusions.
165.-1. We have satisfied ourselves that it would not be unreasonable to base our recommendations upon a population of not less than 1,250,000 during the next five years.
2. We have arrived at a series of standards which we consider might well be adopted as a guide in determining the deficiencies that exist in the existing hospital accommodation, clinical facilities, etc.
3. We have arrived at the conclusion that at the most conservative estimate, Hong Kong suffers from a deficiency in general hospital beds of no less than 3,311, the Chinese population being far more in need of such additional beds than the non-Chinese elements who form a comparatively unimportant proportion of the community from the numerical standpoint.
4. We share the views of Government that the lack of adequate accommodation for infectious fevers is a very real one, the actual deficiency amounts to about 950 beds.
5. We have come to the conclusion that tuberculosis is one of the most important causes of ill-health and premature death in this Colony and that the time has arrived for steps to be taken to deal with the problem on a generous scale.
6. We are satisfied that the provision of accommodation for sick children which amounts to little over 300 beds at present is deficient, the deficiency being 325 cots or beds on a basis of five cots per 10,000 persons living in the community.
7. We have been impressed with the need for further accommodation for women in child-birth. The deficiency amounts to at least 180 beds at the very lowest estimation or twice this number if consideration is given to the high birth-rate and the serious overcrowding which renders home midwifery largely impracticable.
We are also of the opinion that home midwifery is carried out under distinctly unsatisfactory conditions in many instances owing to the low standards of environmental hygiene and the overcrowding prevailing; hence, we conclude that efforts to improve the midwifery service should be towards hospitalization of cases.
8. We are impressed by the large number of aged and infirm persons in the Colony who are in need of institutional care of some kind if it is impracticable to send them back to their ancestral villages—since the majority are not Hong Kong-born citizens. We are satisfied that at least two thousand homeless and destitute aged persons, many of them with chronic bronchitis and similar conditions need to be catered for.
M 106
We have furnished reasons for the standards of accommodation, facilities and services required.
VI-X. We have described the existing medical, surgical, obstetrical and investigational facilities, including provision for the aged and infirm.
X. We have dealt with the question of closer co-operation between___ the Government Medical Department, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, and private registered medical practitioners.
B. Conclusions.
165.-1. We have satisfied ourselves that it would not be unreasonable to base our recommendations upon a population of not less than 1,250,000 during the next five years.
2. We have arrived at a series of standards which we consider might well be adopted as a guide in determining the deficiencies that exist in the existing hospital accommodation, clinical facilities, etc.
3. We have arrived at the conclusion that at the most conservative estimate, Hong Kong suffers from a deficiency in general hospital beds of no less than 3,311, the Chinese population being far more in need of such additional beds than the non-Chinese elements who form a comparatively unimportant proportion of the community from the numerical standpoint.
4. We share the views of Government that the lack of adequate accommodation for infectious fevers is a very real one, the actual deficiency amounts to about 950 beds.
5. We have come to the conclusion that tuberculosis is one of the most important causes of ill-health and premature death in this Colony and that the time has arrived for steps to be taken to deal with the problem on a generous scale.
6. We are satisfied that the provision of accommodation for sick children which amounts to little over 300 beds at present is deficient, the deficiency being 325 cots or beds on a basis of five cots per 10,000 persons living in the community.
7. We have been impressed with the need for further accommodation for women in child-birth. The deficiency amounts to at least 180 beds at the very lowest estimation or twice this number if consideration is given to the high birth-rate and the serious overcrowding which renders home midwifery largely impracticable.
We are also of the opinion that home midwifery is carried out under distinctly unsatisfactory conditions in many instances owing to the low standards of environ- mental hygiene and the overcrowding prevailing; hence, we conclude that efforts to improve the midwifery service should be towards hospitalization of cases.
8. We are impressed by the large number of aged and infirm persons in the Colony who are in need of institutional care of some kind if it is impracticable to send them back to their ancestral villages-since the majority are not Hong Kong-born citizens. We are satisfied that at least two thousand homeless and destitute aged persons, many of them with chronic bronchitis and similar conditions need to be catered for.
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