CO129-592-7 Reports on current situation- Stanley Dental Clinic 26-1-1946 - 26-1-1946 — Page 13

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from my office in Hong Kong.

There were no facilities to organise a Dental Clinic in

Tweed Bay Hospital, so I had a "blitzed" room in Bleek 5 cleared of the debris, in order to commence Dental Work which was in great demand.

In this manner the original Dental Office of the Camp

was commenced and equipped with my personal instruments and materials and from it has developed the official Camp Dental Clinic which has dealt with 3,845 oases during the period under review,

The original "Dental Chair" was improvised from a wooden armchair set on four A.R.P. concrete blocks, and this was in use for some five months, until the International Red Cress, through the good offices of Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, supplied a proper Dental Chair.

CLINIC HOURS - From February, 1942, the Clinie us open officially to patients daily from 8 am to 5 p.m. and closed on Sundays, but few days went by without the efficial hours being extended to 6 or 7 p.m. and most Sunday mornings were filled up with over-flow appointments. After the Clinic was closed I was bully, with my assistant, until 10 or 11

p.m. on prosthetic work. During the hot weather, and due to the low diet,

I was unable to continue to work these long hours, and thereføre frem

August 1st 1942, the sfficial hours were reduced to 8 .me to 12 neen, but

were invariably exceeded. Urgent cases were attended at all hours.

FINANCE - At a meeting of the Medical Profession, at

which I as present, held in the Camp on the 26th January, 1942, it was decided that all stocks of drugs and instruments in their possession be pooled and used at Tweed Bay Hospital and the various Clinios, and that no medical or dental practitioner should make any charge for services rendered

to interneOS,

Arising out of this decision, Dr. J. L. Lanchester was instructed by Dr. K. Uttley, Medical Officer i/e Tweed Bay Hospital, to certify an inventory of all the tools, instruments, apparatus and materials (except gold) belonging to me taken over for use of the Camp Community in

the Camp Dental Clinic. This inventory was signed by Dr. J. L. Lanchester and Dr. D. J. Valentine (as Camp Medical Officer) and valued at reasonable prices ruling in November, 1942, at H.K.$6.425.15.