extensive monitoring of rags and mops used for cleaning. Where indicat- ed, advice was given to employers regarding measures necessary to protect personnel engaged in this work.
273. Lectures on Industrial Health are given to probationer Labour Inspectors, Health Inspectors. Health Visitors and to medical students of the University of Hong Kong. First Aid training classes for industry are organized by the Industrial Health Section and are conducted by the St. John Ambulance Association.
HEALTH EDUCATION
274. A belter appreciation by the Colony's population of the basic principles of environmental hygiene and the prevention of disease con- tinues to be the main health objective. A very wide field is covered by many branches of the Medical and Health Department as an integral part of the service, and all available methods are used in the programmes undertaken. In general, those methods designed for individual or group education have proved to be the most effective, being used with particular success in the Maternal and Child Health Service, the Tuberculosis Service and the Social Hygiene Service.
275. A number of other departments are concerned with various as- pects of Health Education in their respective spheres, and the Inter- departmental Committee on Health Education formed in 1959 acts in an advisory capacity on any matters related to Health Education which may be referred to the Committee.
276. The co-operation of all voluntary bodies interested in health topics is actively sought and Kaifong Associations and Welfare Societies are particularly active in this field. Many of the Kaifongs take a lively and practical interest in the health problems of their respective districts and co-operate in immunization campaigns and in education on environ- mental hygiene.
277. The Health Education Team, formed during 1961 in the New Territories, was active in promoting better standards of hygiene and living conditions in rural areas and in preparing the way for immuniza- tion campaigns. The two 'floating clinics' donated by the Royal Hong
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Kong Jockey Club and the 'flying doctor helicopter service combined curative treatment with advice on environmental hygiene and the preven- tion of disease during visits to isolated coastal and inland villages.
IV. WORK OF THE MEDICAL DIVISION
278. All clinic and hospital services provided by Government con- tinued to operate under heavy pressure throughout the year. There is no doubt that the demand by the general public for medical and health services of all kinds has been steadily mounting in recent years. This pressure is not only caused by the additional numbers requiring atten- tion but also by an increasing tendency to turn from traditional Chinese medicine towards western methods of treatment.
279. Figures II and III show the outpatient attendances, the provi. sion of beds and the admissions to Government hospitals for the five- year period 1958 to 1962:
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5,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
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CHUT-PATIENT ATTRSHMANCES AT GOVERNMENT CLINICI
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