314. Specialist clinics are held at the hospital twice weekly for surgical, gastric, genito-urinary and ear, nose and throat conditions arising as the result of infectious diseases. Audiometry tests are carried oul on two days cach week as part of the E.N.T. Service.
315. In the course of the cholera outbreak, the staff of this hospital also took over the work of the Island cholera treatment unit established in the nearby male block of the old Mental Hospital.
St. John Hospital
316. Consisting of 100 beds and a general outpatient department this Hospital serves the Island of Cheung Chau and the neighbouring islands on the western sea-board. The floating clinic which serves the islands in this area uses Cheung Chau as a base. Specialist clinics for tuberculosis, paediatrics, medicine, dental, eye, social hygiene and skin diseases are also held at the hospital which provides accommodation for patients from Cheung Chau and the neighbouring islands who require general medical and minor surgical treatment which cannot be given on an outpatient basis. Those requiring medical or surgical specialist treatment are transferred to Hong Kong Island.
317. There are 42 beds set aside for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who need inpatient supervision. These are largely occupied by adolescents with open lesions who cannot be allowed to attend school until they are rendered sputum negative,
Wan Chai Hospital
318. This small 30-bed hospital, originally intended for the inpatient treatment of venereal disease amongst women and children is now primarily an institution for the care of female patients with skin diseases and a busy dermatological out-patient department is also maintained there.
319. Out-patient facilities are also provided for the treatment of women suffering from venereal disease and for the examination of known female contacts.
South Lantau Hospital
320. This small hospital of 17 beds serves the workers on the Shek Pik Reservoir project and the villagers on the south-west coast of Lantau Island. The Medical Officer-in-Charge is also responsible for the dispensary at Mui Wo, serves as Health Officer for the area and visits the sick bay at Her Majesty's Prison at Chi Ma Wan,
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Prison Hospitals
321. Hospitals under the care of Medical Officers are maintained at the Stanley Male Prison, the Victoria Remand Prison, the Lai Chi Kok Female Prison and the Tai Lam Prison, the latter being used exclusively for the rehabilitation of prisoners who are also drug addicts. A small sick-bay at Chi Ma Wan Prison is visited regularly by a Government Medical Officer.
322. At Stanley Prison there is a hospital of 90 beds for the accommodation of prisoners who require treatment for conditions which do not warrant transfer to another hospital. Regular visits are paid by specialist staff from the units in general medicine, tuberculosis and social hygiene. In July 1960. an in-service course of training in elementary nursing for Prison Hospital staff was started.
323. AL Victoria Remand Prison, the hospital has been expanded to a total of 59 beds to provide isolation facilities and to accommodate the numbers of drug addicts under remand who are suffering from withdrawal symptoms. One of the prison blocks was converted into a Psychiatric Observation Unit in June 1961 for the observation and treatment of mental cases. It is staffed by 2 Prison Officers qualified in psychiatric nursing and 14 Hospital Warders under in-service training. The unit is under the clinical control of the Senior Specialist in Psychiatry and members of his staff pay regular visits to all main prisons and training centres to advise on the numerous psychiatric and personality problems encountered amongst prisoners.
324. The specialist prison at Tai Lam Chung for the treatment and rehabilitation of convicted male drug addicts continues to give en- couraging immediate results, but no assessment of the relapse rate after discharge has yet been possible.
GOVERNMENT-ASSISTED HOSPITALS
325. There are 26 voluntary bodies receiving direct subventions from Government for work in various medical fields including the maintenance of 16 hospitals and related institutions. Mention has already been made in paragraphs 186 to 192 and 195 of these dealing entirely with tuberculosis namely, the Grantham Hospital, the Ruttonjee Sanatorium and Freni Memorial Convalescent Home and the Haven of Hope Sanatorium.
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