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Head 21 Prisons Department.
The slight increase in "Other Charges" is due to the unfortunate increase in the number of prisoners for which the campaigns against opium and the "Social Evil" are largely responsible. The Legislative Council has already expressed its concurrence in the small im- provements in the salary scales of the Principal Printing Officer and the female staff.
Head 22 - Medical Department.
The work of this department has greatly in-
creased in recent years owing to the growth both of the population of the Colony and of the popularity of treat-
There has also been a ment at Goverment institutions.
The
considerable extension of medical work in the New Terri- tories which has taken up more and more the attention of the Medical Officer-in-Charge New Territories and has left him little time to assist other Medical Officers. Director of Medical and Sanitary Services considers that his present staff is inadequate to cope with the work which it is called upon to perform and that two additional
Provision is also made Medical Officers are necessary.
under the Health Division for one additional Lady Medical Officer who will assist the Health Officer for Schools and also relieve the Assistant Visiting Medical Officer to Chinese Hospitals of some of her manifold duties. The increase in the size of Kowloon Hospital and the great extension of work which will follow the opening
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