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there is likely to be a grim legacy of tuberculosis later.
Health Education: The medical services have done excellent work in health propaganda including the production of films and posters and have attracted the attention of the W. H. O. authorities by the excellence of their work.
Tsam Tuk Maternity Hospital:
This hospital of 100 beds does excellent work under rather crowded conditions. It is popular and 5,000 maternity cases a year are delivered there. It serves as a teaching hospital for the medical school. The maternity organization of Hong Kong is excellent under an energetic Supervisor of Midwives.
Medical Laboratories: These laboratories carry out all the routine work for Hong Kong and produce T. A. B., Cholera and anti-rabies vaccine. They require more suitable and more modern accommodation.
Leper Settlement: I thought the present site of the leper settlement most unsuitable, and to put it mildly, depressing. The sooner they can be moved to their new island settlement, the better.
New Territories: This area is adequately served by the static and travelling dispensaries and dressing stations. The accommodation for the dispensary at Yeumlong was poor, but excellent work was being done. I formed the impression that the people both in the New Territories and the rural areas of Hong Kong were provided with adequate dispensary facilities for treatment. Malaria has been eradicated on Hong Kong Island but remains a difficult problem in part of the New Territories. Fortunately, the people have a considerable acquired immunity to the disease. I was horrified by some of the village water supplies in the New Territories and suggest that the problems of rural water supplies should receive special attention.
Personnel: The Hong Kong medical services very wisely have made use of the best of the displaced Chinese doctors, many of whom are men of high professional standard and great experience, who have left posts in the Chinese Medical Schools or Government. As a result the service is well staffed at present. It should be remembered, however, that when China becomes more normal again many will return to their posts and also that the large number of medical students qualifying at Hong Kong in the near future will have to be absorbed. For both reasons it would be unwise to consider these displaced doctors as being other than very temporary. They should not be registered or taken on the permanent establishment.
Finally, I should like to say again how impressed The I was with the health and medical services of Hong Kong. people of Hong Kong have every reason to be satisfied and proud of their medical service.
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