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recruited dentists are at present employed. Provision is also made in the Civil establishment budget for posts of ophthalmologist, pathologist, radiologist, biochemist and malariologist. With regard to the latter post, I am told that Dr. R. B. Jackson, the former malariologist, is returning to the Colony temporarily to relieve Dr. J. B. Mackie, who should proceed on leave as soon as possible; he was in the Colony throughout the occupation. The posts of consultant surgical, gynaecological and medical specialists are also fixed; they are supplied by the University teaching staff. Having in view the high incidence of child disability and disease that exists in the Colony, the question of a specialist in paediatrics should be considered.
Pulmonary tuberculosis is, without any doubt, one of the major public health problems in this Colony at present and probably the best approach to the solution of the problem, so far as this can be envisaged for a place like Hong Kong, would be to send a properly qualified specialist out to investigate and make recommendations.
There is a high incidence of orthopedic disability arong children in the Colony. There has also to be kept in mind the large amount of disability existing amongst adults often leading to unemployment and destitution, much of which could be relieved, or even put right, under skilled advice and guidance. Regring is a paying profession in Hong Tong; perhaps a proportion of this could be reduced, provided there was no ground for adopting such a profession on account of physical disability for work. Here again it would be desirable to send out a specialist to investigate and report.
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