OPHTHALMOLOGY
364. This service, which is under the direction of the Ophthalmic Specialist, maintains two full-time centres with surgical facilities, onc on Hong Kong Island and one in Kowloon. Ophthalmic teams also visit regularly, on a session basis, clinics in urban and rural areas.
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365, During the year only 467 persons were registered as blind, a marked contrast with the number of 742 registered in the previous year; only thirty-five of these were children under fifteen years of age. The major causes of blindness recorded in these persons were: - (43%). glaucoma (12%), trachoma (11%) and keratomalacia (10%).
366. There have been marked changes in the incidence of the various causes of blindness over the past decade, as can be seen from Table 49.
TABLE 49
CAUSES OF Blindness 1953–63
(Expressed as percentage of total blind persons registered în year)
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICE
369. The headquarters of this service is at the Central Medical Store located in the Government Stores Compound, North Point. The Chief Pharmacist is in charge of a staff of two Senior Pharmacists, ten Phar- macists and 131 Dispensers, the majority of whom are posted in a total of fifty-four hospital pharmacies and out-patient dispensaries in various parts of the Colony. The Chief Pharmacist is a member of the Pharmacy Board and is largely responsible for the enforcement of the Ordinances dealing with dangerous drugs, pharmacy and poisons and antibiotics. Two Pharmacists carry out full-time regular inspections of manufactur- ing houses. retail pharmacies and the dispensaries of Government- assisted and private hospitals.
370. During the year considerable assistance was given by members of the inspectorial staff to the Police Department in raids on premises involved in the illegal possession of dangerous drugs, antibiotics and scheduled poisons. The work done in 1963 is shown in Table $1.
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Keratomalacia
Senile Cataraçı
Trachoma
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Glaucoma
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44
10
PHARMACEUTICAL CONTROL 1963-63
16
43
1962
1963
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Wholesale Poisons Licences issued
433
439
3.5
12
Authorized Sellers Licences issued
41
46
10
2
Listed Sellers Licences issued
540
662
6
$
Antibiotics Permits issued
315
310
4
2.5
7.5
3.5
Licences for movement of Dangerous Drugs Premises inspected
408
384
FF
2,563
3,393
Prosecutions
SI
245
367. Of the total of 2,915 operative procedures undertaken during the year, 2,548 were performed on an out-patient basis, the patients being followed-up by health visitors. Of all these operations, 1,307 can be described as sight-restoring,
368. The work of the Ophthalmic Service in 1962 and 1963 is detailed in Table 50.
TABLE 50
WORK OF THE OPHTHALMIC SERVICE 1962–63
New out-patient attendances Total out-patient attendances
Operation performed
Home visits by Health Visitors Spectacles provided for children
**
1962
83,852 236,416
1963
93.343 251,374
F
4,056
2,915
3,360
3.682
1,757
2,233
371. The Central Medical Store is the main depot supplying all Government medical institutions in Hong Kong and the surrounding islands with pharmaceuticals, medical and surgical equipment and supplies and medical cases. A branch, the Kowloon Medical Store, is the distribution centre for Kowloon and the New Territories. Manufactur- ing units for the supply in bulk of pharmaceuticals in concentrated form are maintained at both stores. Parenteral fluids and other sterile preparations are manufactured at the Central Medical Store and at the pharmacies of the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary Hospitals. During the year, over 160,000 litres of miscellaneous parenteral fluids were prepared. Other sterile preparations, which included a wide range of ampoules for injection, ophthalmic solutions and ointments, totalled about 350,000 items.
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