44. At the 31st March, 1963, the number of persons on the statutory registers were as follows:
Register of Medical Practitioners
Register of Dentists
Register of Pharmacists
Register of Nurses -General (Female)
Register of Midwives
(Male) Mental (Male)
WORK OF THE STATUTORY COUNCILS AND BOARDS
Medical Council
1.133
412 IOR
2,146
123
2 2,068
45. There were six ordinary meetings of the Council and five in- quiries were held during the year. Of the inquiries, two were in respect of disciplinary charges and two concerned the use of dangerous drugs by certain medical practitioners. One disciplinary inquiry, referred by the Preliminary Investigation Committee in March 1962, was beard by the Council during May 1962, A verdict of 'guilty” was returned and a sentence of three months erasure recorded: the sentence was however suspended for a period of two years on the condition that no further disciplinary offence was committed daring this period.
46. The revised edition of the Council's Warning Notice was received from the printer during the year and was issued to medical practitioners during the month of November, 1962.
47. The Preliminary Investigation Committee met twice to consider disciplinary charges and both were referred to the Medical Council for inquiry. The first case referred to a charge of advertising and was scheduled for hearing by the full Council during April 1963, The second case referred to the issue of international certificates of inoculation against cholera without having inoculated the persons concerned. The Medical Council commenced this latter hearing during the month of March 1963, but the meeting was later adjourned to a date in April 1963. 48. During the year there were 79 applications accepted for full reg- istration and 2 applications for reinstatement were granted: 43 applica- tions for provisional registration were also accepted. A total of 8 names were erased from the register during the year as a result of death, de- parture from the Colony or failure to notify changes of address.
49. The fees payable in respect of full registration were increased during the year.
Dental Council
50. The Council met five times during the year to attend to routine business. Fees for first admission to the register were increased during the year and, in addition, an entrance fee was imposed for any examina- tion conducted in the Colony by examiners appointed by the Council. 51. There were 31 applications accepted for registration with the Council, of which 3 were for re-inclusion in the Register of Dentists; a further 12 applicants had qualifications acceptable without examination and were registered. Of the remaining 16 applicants, two sat the Council's examinations, passed and their names were entered in the Register. Six others were accepted for examination, five applications were rejected and three were under consideration at the end of the year, Pharmacy Board
$2, The Board met four times for the transaction of routine business. There were twenty-nine applications for registration of which only one was accepted without examination: six applicants successfully passed the Board's examination and were admitted to the Register. Sixteen applicants were required to undergo further practical training before attempting the Board's examination and a further three applicants granted direct access to the Board's examinations to be held in 1963-64. Three applications were rejected.
$3. Under the Governmental scholarship scheme, a further two scholarships were awarded for the study of pharmacy in Australia. Nursing Board
54. The Board met four times during the year. The requirements for the approval of Nurses Training Schools in Hong Kong were review- ed and brought into line with those to be introduced by the General Nursing Council of England and Wales as from the 1st January, 1964. After an exchange of letters with the General Nursing Council it has been agreed that all the existing approved Training Schools in the Colony will continue to be recognized for the purposes of reciprocity. Further consideration was also given to the revision of the general nursing examination syllabus by a sub-commitee of the Nursing Board. Ex- aminations in general and psychiatric oursing were held in June and December, the results of which were as follows:
General Nursing
Preliminary Examination Final Examination
Psychiatric Nursing
Preliminary Examination
Final Examination
Entered
Passed
352
285
213
189
21
18
2
SN
10
1
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