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Hospitals and Dispensaries.

for gynaecological work.

This officer is required

Government anticipates

One

further increases in future years in this very important work as it does also in the Venereal Diseases, School hygiene and Maternity and Child Welfare branches. more Chinese Medical Officer is provided for under New Territories. The work of the Medical Department and

of voluntary associations is rapidly expanding in the New Territories with a welcome response from the villagers. Under Kennedy Town Hospital on page 64 three posts of Staff Nurses and three of Staff Dressers have been

inserted.

These will be sufficient to cope with the

few cases that this Hospital receives when there is no epidemic, and will form a nucleus when there is an epidemic. At present there is no special staff for this hospital, and consequently when it is in use staff has to be withdrawn from other hospitals, which is

unsatisfactory.

One of the recommendations of the Retrenchment Commission was the replacement of Luropean by Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors. A scheme, which has been approved in principle by the Sanitary Board, has been devised and it is proposed to make a start next year with the appointment of six Probationary Inspectors who appear at the top of page 69 of the Printed Estimates. They will have practical work under the Medical Officer of Health and will attend a course of lectures on sanitation,

hygiene