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"Foz personal reasons, apart from official ones, I am delighted to

be the one who declares open this Hospital, because I have an association

with it back to 1952, when I was Colonial Secretary. It is heart-warming to

see the materialisation of schemes and plans, of blue-prints and the ideas

born of discussions in smoke-filled rooms; there is a nostalgia in the

recollection of the periods of anxiety and relief, of the moments of despair

and hope, and of the consciousness throughout of the undercurrent of urgency

which was the community's need.

"Now the Queen Elizabeth Hospital stands four square in the gentre

of Kowloon. It has cost $70,300,000. It is the largest of its kind in the

Commonwealth with 1,338 beds. It is completely up-to-date, with a full

range of the most modern means of treatment.

"I do not propose to go into this in detail; there is a brochure

for this purpose: but I do draw attention to the very large Casualty

Department for emergency cases, the Specialist Clinic (generously donated

by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club) to deal with those cases referred for

consultant's opinion, the Radiological Institute, for which the Jockey Club

has donated $6 million to cover the cost of equipment and to contribute

towards the cost of the Institute."

Newest Equipment

"This institute is a self-contained unit within the hospital

structure, and it will contain the newest equipment available for the

treatment of cancer and the most recent diagnostic facilities.

"In this connexion I might add that I have recently accepted an

invitation from Dr. H.C. Ho and his colleagues to become Patron of the

recently-formed Anti-Cancer Society in Hong Kong, and we should find

encouragement in this promise of development in the work undertaken to

fight cancer.

"During the hospital's construction we have been fortunate in

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