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the Venereal Diseases branch continues to grow, and it is necessary to provide for two more Staff Dressers, page 59. The Maternity and Child Welfare branch, also on page 59,claims two more Nurses. This is a branch of medical work with which Government has the utmost sympathy, and, it is only the extreme necessity for not undertaking any more liabilities than we are definitely committed to that prevents a considerably larger increase in the staff, and also in the accommodation, for welfare work.
No provision, apart from one sew anah, on page 62, who will be needed in advance in connection with making up the linen, has been made for the extra staff that will be required for the new Queen Mary Hospital, as the Hospital will not be ready until 1937. Nor has the medical equipment for this Hospital been included in these Estimates apart from a sum of $35,000, sub-head 60, for disinfecters and sterilisers which must be installed before the building is completed, and the linen which has to be made up.
The "Other Charges" Votes have been pruned so far as is consistent with the proper maintenance of existing Government medical and hospital services. They show a net reduction of $38,559.
Head 23, Sanitary Department.
The number of second-class European Sanitary Inspectors is reduced by one. As Hon. Members are aware it is Government's policy gradually to replace European by Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors as vacancies occur among the
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