CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932 — Page 128

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and dispensaries, the Sanitary Board and the Sanitary

Department. The aim of all is the same, the health of the

people. Let them take counsel together as to how best they

may achieve their aim. Admittedly a difficult question.

with tact and goodwill much more can be done than is the case

at present.

But

4. The Commissioners understand that the Director of Medical

and Sanitary Services has already submitted to Government his

recommendations for the reorganization of the health service

in Hong Kong, and that his report is being considered by a

Committee.

It would be idle therefore for the Commissioners

to go into this matter in detail. They would however stress

the point that it is wasteful to have two separate authorities

within Government for health work.

5. The Commissioners know it has been suggested that the

Medical Department should obtain surgical, medical and

gynaecological specialists. The University already has

eminent experts in each of these branches, and the Commission

can see no necessity why the posts should be duplicated.

fact that Government medical officers are eligible for these

posts should not be forgotten.

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dressings,

The

Government should take up with the University authorities

the question of the ordering of 'extras' and the supply of

- the cost of which has to be borne by Government,

for University ward patients in the Government Civil Hospital.

They are ordered far more lavishly by the University

professors than by the Government practitioners The

practice should cease.

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7. With the exception of Victoria Hospital the catering in

Government hospitals is done by contract. The question of

whether it would not be cheaper to do it departmentally, which