CO129-629-10 Tuberculosis 1-7-1950 - 31-10-1951 — Page 30

}

12 -

(c) Discharges.

1. Completed treatment

(i) Improved

.....

(ii) In same condition

(iii) Worse

119

59

3

Total of (i) to (iii).181

2. Discharged against medical advice. 143

3. Died

4. Transferred to Non-Tuberculosis

54

and Convalescent Hospitals.... 18

Total of patients discharged

396

(d) Number of patients remaining in Hospitals as

at last day of the year.

291

Future development.

Plans are now in being for extension of the Clinic service by the erection ofa new clinic in Kowloon.

The amount of money requested for tuberculosis maintenance for the financial year 1950-1951 has been doubled.

Plans for D.C.G. campaign are slow to materialise but action is planned to commence probably within the next eighteen months.

Outlook.

To make any forecast as to future commitments of the tuberculosis service would be to make prediction as to future political development s in China, which is beyond the scope of this report. It is not the present policy to restrict treatment to bona fide Hong Kong citizens and in the absence of such qualiri cation we must face the prospect of ever increasing demands on the service as its scope and resources expand.

2

A.S. Moodie,

M.0. i/c Tuberculosis Clinics.

Page 30Page 31