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10. Under Chemical Division", one Assistant Analyst, who is a locally recruited officer, has been placed on a dollar instead of a sterling scale. Offe Laboratory Attendant has been granted a somewhat higher scale of salary as his responsibilities are higher than those of the ordinary Laboratory Attendant.
11. Provision for the Government Civil Hospital and the Victoria Hospital disappears with the closing of these institutions. In the Mental Hospital the post of Wardmaster abolished, and an extra Probationer Dresser is provided to perform the duties of this post.
12. One extra House Officer and one extra amal have been provided for the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital, now devoted entirely to maternity cases, gynecological cases being all sent to the Queen Mary Hospital.
13. A full time Electrician is provided to look after the many and varied electrical installations at the Queen Mary Hospital, and for this institution four additional Ward Boys, ten additional coolies, and one extra Cook are considered essential.
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14. Under Other Charges some increases have had to be made on several Sub-heads to provide for the running of the Queen Mary Hospital for a full twelve months as against only nine months provision in 1937 and because of the general increase in prices. The increase of the provision for Dental and other Special Treatment is due to the fact that arrangements have been made to secure the services of a Dental Surgeon for one afternoon a week for the Queen Mary Hospital to give free dental treatment for poor patients. Three Sub-heads have been amalgamated into one under Bacteriological Institute.
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15. A large increase has been made in the vote for Anti-Malarial Field Work. This increase is partly due to increased work and partly to the fact that in future, coolies employed by the Malaria Bureau will be paid for from this vote and will not as hitherto be paid by the Sanitary Department.
16. Under Special Expenditure in 1937, provision of $35,000 was made for Reserve of Medical Equipment". The total cost of this Reserve is $70,000 and it was proposed to provide a further $35.000 this year. It has however been con- sidered advisable in view of the financial situation to spread the programme over three years and accordingly only $17,500 is provided for 1938. A heavy item of expenditure proposed is the purchase of an X-Ray Therapy apparatus the need of which has been felt for many years. The sum provided for "Purchase of Radium" is in the nature of a token vote; negotiations are in progress between the Govern- ment and the Trustees of the Matilda Hospital for the purchase from the latter of their complete stock of radium. The surgical equipment of the Queen Mary Hospital still leaves a great deal to be desired and $2,000 has been provided for the addition of further essential items. Certain items of Chemical and Pharmaceu- tical Apparatus will be purchased to facilitate the training of dispensers,
Head 23 Sanitary Department.
1. Special Expenditure under this Head includes two Refuse Lorries needed to replace old vehicles. One Refuse Barge is necessary as a replacement.
2. Under Other Charges one item of $2,000 has been inserted for the training of nine new Chinese Probationer Sanitary Inspectors. These new posts are in accordance with the policy of gradual Asiaticization and are offset by a reduction of two European Sanitary Inspectors and five Junior Clerical Service clerks.
3. The control of factories and workshops will be taken over by the Urban Council on the 1st January, 1938. The post of Inspector of Factories formerly under Head 3-Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, vacant since the death of Inspector Meade, has been abolished, and that of Assistant Inspector of Factories has been trans- ferred to this Head, the holder being granted the status of Senior Sanitary Inspector in accordance with his existing scale of salary. One Class V Clerk has also been transferred from the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs in this connection.
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4. Additional work on the refuse dump at Kun Tong has necessitated an increase of fifty in the number of Scavenging Coolies. The actual increase is only twenty-five, as twenty-five were approved in April of this year, when a Supplemen- tary Vote was taken for the purpose.
Head 24-Botanical and Forestry Department.
Provision of $2,000 for the planting of flowering shrubs has again been made this year.
Three mowing machines will be purchased, one for use at the Central British School and two for the Hong Kong Prison at Stanley. One Leading Gardener has been added to look after the grounds of the new prison.
Head 25-Education Department.
1. The capitation grants show an increase due to the restoration of the 10% economy cut made in this year's Estimates and also to the greater number of pupils now attending. The increase in the total of Grants to Urban Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong is due to the adoption of the capitation basis of payment which has been recommended by the Education Board. The figure for Subsidies to Schools in Now Territories has been increased partly because of the growing number of schools in that area, and partly because of a revised system of payment which has been approved by the Education Board.
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2. The sum provided for Tools and Equipment under Trade School represents the final instalment for the purchase of the equipment necessary for this institution.
3. Under Building Grants ",
sums of $10,000 and $8,650 for St. Mary's School, Kowloon, and for the Heep Yunn School, have been provided. These grants have been recommended by the Education Board in accordance with the provision of the Grant Code.
4. An increase is shown under Personal Emoluments. Staffing of the Trade School has necessitated some changes. Two posts, Chinese Assistant Instructors, have been abolished and replaced by a University Trained Master and by a Probationary Assistant Chinese Instructor. Additional posts of one European Instructor in Wireless Telegraphy and Electro-Technics, one Assistant Instructor, Building, one Senior Chinese Instructor in Engineering, and one Chinese Tele- graphist, Class IV have been created, while one Class V Clerk and one Store Foreman are not now required.
5. In addition to the extra University Trained Master for the Trade School, eight more such posts have been provided as well as one University Trained Mistress (formerly described as a University Trained Master). As against this increase, there is a decrease of one Master, one Mistress and one Temporary Mistress in the British Staff, and a reduction of two Anglo-Chinese Masters. The apparent increase of staff is temporary, being due to the fact that the change in the University year brought about four years ago will have its effect in 1938, in which year no University Trained Masters will qualify.
G. Revised scales of salary have been introduced for new recruits to the British Staff. The 25% cut in the fees to lecturers at the Evening Institute was removed in 1937. The present rates are $7 an hour for a class of less than 15 pupils and $8 an hour for a class of more than 15. These rates are thought to be unduly low and provision has been made in 1938 for payment at a flat rate of $9 an hour.
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7. The development of Physical Training in Schools recommended in the Burney Report has necessitated further increases in staff. The three Chinese Temporary Physical Training Instructors have been increased to ten and provision is also made for two Chinese Female Physical Training Instructors. Scales of salary which are admittedly somewhat experimental have been attached to these posts. found necessary to offer a fairly generous scale of salary to attract a suitable candidate for the post of Physical Training Supervisor, the figure of £400 provided in this year's Estimates having proved unattractive. The same remarks, mutatis mutandis, apply to the post of Chief Instructor, Junior Technical School, described in the 1937 Estimates as Pattern Maker.
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