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280. At the end of 1962, there was a total of 9,514 beds available in all hospitals in Hong Kong, excluding those hospitals maintained by Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

281. An additional 503 beds in private maternity and nursing homes were also available. Details concerning this hospital accommodation are given in Appendix 10 and an analysis of the work done is set out in Appendices 9 and 11.

282. No new hospitals were opened but extensions to existing institu- tions and redeployment in the use of accommodation resulted in a total, on balance, of 73 more beds being made available for inpatient treat- ment; details of these increases are given in the paragraphs dealing with the individual hospitals concerned.

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Kowloon Hospital

283. This is the main casualty and emergency receiving hospital for Kowloon and the mainland part of the New Territories. The Casualty Department maintains a 24-hour service and an average of 11.1 cases were seen every hour throughout the year, a total of 97.246 attendances being recorded. This is a 12% increase over the figures for the previous year.

284. The outpatient department of the hospital now sees general cases only since the specialist outpatient clinics, with the exception of the orthopaedic clinic, moved to the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Specialist Clinic in King's Park which was opened in September, 1962; the total number of outpatients seen in the year at Kowloon Hospital was 596.398: those attending at the new Specialist Clinic at the Queen Eliza- beth Hospital from 12th September, 1962 to 31st December, 1962, numbered 23,728.

285. The number of inpatients admitted for treatment to the 574 beds of the hospital was 29.977, an increase of nearly 30% over 1961. There was a small decrease in the maternity admissions due to the partial closure of the Maternity Block as a result of damage caused by typhoon Wanda in September 1962. This damage required major re- pairs which took some 6 weeks before the normal operations could be resumed.

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