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This applies particularly to Kowloon City and Tsun Wan where combined outpatient dispensaries and maternity homes existed prior to the Japanese attack on Hong Kong.
At such centres provision would be made for general outpatient work, maternal and child welfare clinics, health inspector's office, and facilities for vaccination and inoculation. Here, under the supervision of the medical officer medical officer of health of the district, health inspectors, health visitors, district midwives, vaccinators, school health staff, etc., would carry out their duties.
(8) Students Hostel.
We are satisfied that a students hostel for, say, twenty students combined with a refectory capable of supplying the needs of fifty students would be a very useful addition to the Queen Mary Hospital.
The nature of a student's duties make it particularly desirable that he should live as close as possible to his wards. In normal times, students have to live at a considerable distance from the hospital instead of forming an integral unit of the team responsible with the qualified staff for the clinical work of the hospital. In the same way, a refectory would permit non-resident students to have refreshment close to the centre of their studies, instead of losing time and tuition waiting for the irregularly running transport between their homes and the hospital.
The University Authorities have expressed themselves strongly in favour of this project which would result in a more contented group of undergraduates and a higher standard of clinical work.
(9) Leper Colony.
The former Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital purchased by Government for $50,000 from the Tung Wah Hospital Corporation a year before the Pacific War and converted into a leper settlement was totally destroyed during the occupation.
Arrangements are now in existence with certain missions in Kwang Tung Province to care for leper patients sent from Hong Kong. On the other hand, a certain amount of delay usually occurs before lepers found in the Colony can be transferred to the mission settle- ment. Hence, some form of transit quarters are needed during the interval between discovery and transfer.
When a new mental hospital is built in the Leased Territories, it is our view that the male section of the existing Mental Hospital could be utilised for lepers in transit.
(10) Polyclinic (Sai Ying Pun).
The Queen Mary Hospital is situated in a locality too far removed from the built-up portion of Victoria to warrant its use
as an institution for general outpatients. To meet the difficulty, the Queen's Road Outpatient Department has been main- tained. In the summer months when 600-800 outpatients may attend daily, the existing department is noisy and very overcrowded, to the extent of interfering with medical examinations.
From the ideal standpoint, it would be preferable to build an entirely new polyclinic on the site of the former A Block, Government Civil Hospital.
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