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8.
Satisfactory progress is being made in the
preparation of the site for the new Government Civil
Hospital outside the city, and open to the sea breezes in summer, the situation is favourable for the treatment of tubercular diseases, and provision will be made for this
purpose.
9.
The extensions to the Kowloon Hospital are nearing completion and will shortly provide accommodation for 107 general cases, and 37 maternity cases. It has not been possible to make any provision for the commencement of a new infectious diseases hospital or for a new mental hospital during the coming year.
10.
The position with regard to the provision of medical assistance in the New Territories has greatly improved. The two voluntary associations carrying on charitable work there have recently amalgamated to form the St. John Ambulance New Territories Medical Benevolent Branch. This organisation maintains ten centres on the mainland and one on the island of Cheung Chau, each with its fully qualified resident Chinese midwife.
In addition the Government maintains two dispensaries each in charge of a Chinese Medical officer, and having on its staff a dresser and a midwife.
The Government travelling dispensary attends to the needs of villages at which there are no centres; the construction of a dispensary launch for work among the boat population, and the villages on islands or on the sea coast and remote from roads has had to be postponed owing to lack of funds.
11.
Two Welfare centres, one the gift of Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung, and the other of Mr. H. Ruttonjee, are nearing completion and will shortly be opened as Government
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