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South Lantau Hospital

316. This small hospital of 17 beds was originally designed to serve the workers on the Shek Pik Reservoir which was completed during the year. It now serves the villages and the south-west coast of Lantaŭ Island and, as communication facilities on the island expand, it is becom- ing available to an increasingly greater population. The Medical Officer- in-Charge is responsible for the Dispensary and Maternity Home at Mui Wo and for sick prisoners and staff at Her Majesty's Prisons and Detention Centres on the island, he also serves as the Health Officer for the area.

Prison Hospitals

317. Four hospitals with a total of 185 beds are maintained within prison compounds in the Colony at Stanley Prison, Victoria Prison, Tai Lam Prison and Lai Chi Kok Female Prison.

318. Stanley Prison Hospital containing 90 beds is concerned with the health of over 3,000 prisoners and over 400 staff. Apart from the general out-patient clinic, specialist sessions are held for tuberculosis, venereal disease, leprosy, eye diseases and dentistry. The major problem during the year under review was an outbreak of bacillary dysentery commencing in mid-January, 1964 and continuing for some 24 months. This was traced to food handlers in the kitchen and was brought under control by the imposition of more stringent hygiene and sanitation

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319. H.M. Prison, Tai Lam, continues to give encouraging immediate results in the treatment and rehabilitation of convicted male drug addicts.

320. The Victoria Remand Prison has, in addition to a hospital for general diseases, a special psychiatric observation unit for suspected cases of mental disease in prisoners. This unit is under the clinical supervi- sion of the Senior Specialist in Psychiatry, members of whose staff also pay regular visits to all main prisons and training centres to advise on the numerous psychiatric and personality problems encountered amongst prisoners.

GOVERNMENT ASSISTED HOSPITALS

321. Financial assistance mainly by means of an annual subvention is given by Government to twelve hospitals maintained by voluntary organizations.

322. Paragraphs 157 to 16$ mention those institutions which are concerned solely with the care of patients suffering from tuberculosis.

The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals

323. This group comprises three large hospitals and one infirmary. Incorporated in 1870 by statute which is based on the charitable aims and objects of Chinese tradition, a Board of Directors is elected annually. Management of the hospitals and infirmaries is delegated by the Board to the Tung Wah Hospital Medical Committee. This Committee is under the chairmanship of the Director of Medical and Health Services and is composed of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the three Principal Directors of the Board, prominent Chinese citizen appointed by His Excellency the Governor, a member from the Permanent Advisors to the Tung Wah Board, representatives from the Government Finance, Public Works and Medical and Health Departments and the Medical Superin- tendents of the Hospitals. The Board of Directors raises large sums annually from donations, charity functions, public appeals and a flag- day. This money is devoted mainly to capital expenditure on hospitals, primary schools and welfare services for the poor. Government gave a subvention of $15,272.374 in 1963-64.

324. Each hospital provides general medical, surgical and obstetric facilities. In addition, certain wards are set aside in the hospitals and infirmary for the accommodation of patients with tuberculosis. A Group Medical Superintendent and three Medical Superintendents are appointed by Goverment to the hospitals, and Government Nursing Sisters are seconded to the Nurses Training School as Tutors. All training and other activities are conducted in Chinese. Consultant Services are given voluntarily by private medical practitioners and, in some instances, by Government Specialists.

325. During the year the major occupation of the Directors continued to be the redevelopment of the Kwong Wah Hospital in Kowloon. The north wing, the fourth phase of the redevelopment programme, was completed in June, 1963, and commissioned in the following month. By the end of the year under review the south wing, the fifth and last major stage of the development, was nearing completion and was officially opened in March, 1964, by the Hon. R. C. LEE, C.B.E., J.P. On the completion of this, all that remains to be done is the reconstruction of the mortuary and of certain quarters and a new building for the herbal out-patient clinic.

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