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VISITORS

Appointment

Course of Study

Place of Study

3 Nurses

Further training in Nursing

Australia

Source of Funds

Own expense

Appointinent

Specialist (E.N.T.)

of Infectious Diseases

1 Nurse

1 Nurse

Operating Theatre and

Canadia

Own expense

Senior Medical and Health Officer

Surgical Nursing

Conferences, etc. attended

9th Congress of the Pan-Pacific

Surgical Association.. W.H.O. Seminar on Immunization in the Control of Communicable Diseases.

Place

Honolulu

Manila

Gynaecological Nursing,

Australia

Own expense

Infectious Diseases

3 Nurses

Thoracic Nursing

U.K.

Own expense

2 Nurses

E.N.T. Nursing

U.K.

Own expense

1 Nurses

Gynaecological Nursing

Australia

Own expens

t Nurse

Part 1 Midwifery Traiming

U.K.

Own expenst

1 Nurse

Dematology Nursing

U.K.

1 Nurse

Part II Midwifery Training,

U.K.

Own expensC Own expense

Premature lafónu. Nursing and Paediatric Nursing

448.

VIIL MISCELLANEOUS

ATTENDANCES AT CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

The following sets out the attendances by officers of the Medical and Health Department at Meetings and Conferences during 1963–64.

Appointment

Director of Medical &

Health Services

Health Sister

Almoner, Class I, &

Orthopaedic Appliance Advisor

Specialist (Dental)

Chemist

Orthopaedic Appliance

Advisor

Dental Officer

Senior Specialist (Psychiatry)

Conferences, etc, attended

W.H.O. Seminar on the Role

of the Hospital in the

Place

Manila

Public Health Programme. Annual Congress of the Royal

Society for the Promotion of Health.

Eastboume

Copenhagen

Stockholm

London

9th World Congress of the

International Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled, 51st Annual Meeting of the

International Dental Foderation. 22nd Conference of the

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry & 19th International Congress of

6th International Prosthetics

Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Copenhagen

Course.

British Dental Association

Annual Meeting.

Oxford

W.H.O. Expert Advisory Pane)

Geneva

on Mental Health,

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449. The following distinguished medical men and women visited Hong Kong during 1963-64.

General

(1) A group of American psychiatrists, headed by Prof. Jutes MASSERMAN, Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association, visited the Castle Peak Hospital on 21.5.63 in the course of a round-the-world professional tour,

(ii) Mr. J. F. WILSON, O.B.E., Director of the Royal Common- wealth Society for the Blind, visited the Colony from 31.5.63 to 9.6.63 and called on the Director on 6.6.63 for a general discussion on the problems of rehabilitation and research into the nutritional aspects of eye diseases.

(iii) Mr. Bruce W. Everist, M.D., Chairman of the Committee on Accident Prevention of the American Academy of Paediatrics, visited the Colony from 7.7.63 to 11.7.63 in the course of a world tour to study accident prevention activities.

(iv) Prof. LIM Kok Ann, Professor of Bacteriology, University of Singapore, visited the Department on 7.7.63 to discuss the progress of virus work in Hong Kong.

(v) Dr. J. M. Liston, C.M.G., Chief Medical Officer, Department of Technical Co-operation, arrived in the Colony for a week's stay on 4.9.63.

(vi) Lord Lansdowne, Minister of State for Commonwealth and Colonial Affairs, visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on 12.9.63. (vii) Drs. J. V. GALOTTO and W. S. DAVIS of the Catholic Charities' Guidance Clinics, Diocese of Brooklyn, visited the Castle Peak Hospital on 2.9.63.

(viii) Dr. David LANDAU, an American psychiatrist, visited the Castle

Peak Drug Addiction Centre on 30.9.63.

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