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temporary Guards will be dispensed with as soon as
arrears of leave of the Indian staff have been made
good.
The Medical Department shews a marked increase
in personnel. The most noteworthy additions are, in
the order in which they appear in the printed Estimates,
a Class I officer of the Senior Clerical Staff, who is required to assist in the increasing amount of
administrative work that is involved in running a department the size of the Medical Department; a House Officer for the University Professors who assist the
Government at the Outpatients' Department at the Civil Hospital; two European Nursing Sisters, who are required in connection with the expansion at Kowloon.
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with these two additional Sisters there will be no
reserves available for outside work or for times of
emergency. The Venereal Diseases branch is strengthened
by a Chinese Medical Officer, and a European Technical
Assistant.
It is intended to place the latter in
charge of the new clinic at Kowloon, which will be
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close to the docks.
There are also small additions to
subordinate staff for this branch.
Provision is made
for one more Chinese Medical Officer for schools.
Even with this addition there will in all be only three school doctors; not an extravagant number in view of the
number of school children in the Colony. There is one
new post of Chinese Lady liedical Officer under Chinese
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