lower priority.
It is of interest that Hong Kong compares excep- tionally well in this field with Singapore. The number of hospitals beds per thousand of population is 25% higher in the Colony than in Singapore; and this discrepancy looks likely to increase over the next four years. Hong Kong charges for medical services are nominal and indeed only a quarter of the equivalent charges in Singapore, and life expectancy is considerably higher. Only in the proportion of the number of people per physician is Singapore apparently in advance of Hong Kong (1,400 as opposed to 1,560) but the difference is marginal and even this may be rectified with the opening of the new medical school in Hong Kong.
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