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KOWLOON HOSPITAL

96. With the completion of renovation of the hospital premises towards the end of 1965, a total of 500 beds in Kowloon Hospital was ready for use by February 1966 with fully equipped facilities and staff. 332 of the Kowloon Hospital beds provided subsidiary accommodation for Queen Elizabeth Hospital, catering for convalescent patients and those in need of rehabilitation. The medical supervision is provided by the various specialist Units of Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

97. A long term design for establishing a Chest Centre at Kowloon Hospital has been achieved with the opening of the Pulmonary Tuber- culosis Unit in September 1965 and the transfer of the Thoracic Surgical Uait from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in February 1966. These 2 units have a total of 168 beds. Apart from treating patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, the work of these 2 units includes also other aspects of cardio-thoracic surgery and non-tuberculosis chest disease.

TSAN YUK HOSPITAL

(Sce table 51)

98. This hospital, under the clinical supervision of the University Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, is the main specialist obstetric hospital in the Colony. It is the teaching centre in Obstetrics for medical undergraduates and the training school for midwives who have not first trained as general nurses.

99. Approximately 93.97% of admissions were cases registered at the bospital ante-natal clinic, and were in the main primiparae and multigravidae requiring specialist care; the remainder of the admissions were emergency cases referred from other sources. In spite of this high rate of abnormal admissions, only six maternal deaths were recorded, the causes of which were: -2 cases of acute heart failure, 2 cases of hepatic failure, one case of pulmonary embolism and one case of post- partum haemorrhage which had died before arrival.

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE

Castle Peak Hospital (See table 52)

100. This hospital for psychiatric patients of 1,119 beds was required to accommodate 1,407 patients at the end of the year. Work has been started on the construction of two new ward blocks (to be completed by July 1966) to provide an additional 240 beds.

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101. All forms of treatment continued to be used with the exception of deep insulin coma and psychosurgery which were replaced by psychotropic drugs. The latter therapy constituted the most important single factor in the reduction of length of stay of hospitalized patients and the prevention of relapse after discharge.

102. Increasing efforts were made to rehabilitate the long-stay and grossly mentally handicapped patients, the aim being to make them fit to earn their living. Two wards accommodating up to 130 patients were specially set up for this purpose. The usual therapeutic measures including occupational therapy, group therapy and re-education were intensively used but emphasis was placed on training in activities having a direct bearing on their work after leaving hospital. By these means a number of patients of poor prognosis were discharged to card their living outside.

Day Hospital and Psychiatric Clinics (See table 53)

103. Work in the out-patient centres continued to increase and it was found necessary to run the Tsim Sha Tsui Psychiatric Clinic full- time. In addition to these clinics, psychiatric services are provided for the Psychiatric Observation Unit in Victoria Remand Prison.

104. The New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (formerly the New Life Mutual Aid Club) consisting of discharged patients and their relatives continued to expand its activities with the guidance and moral support of the Mental Health Service. The main project of the Association was the "half-way house' at the Association's premises in Kowloon in which a total of 94 patients, either homeless or rejected by their families, were accommodated after their discharge from Casık Peak Hospital. The average period of stay for each resident was three

months.

Drug Addiction Treatment Centre (See table 54)

105. This centre, opened in March 1961 and situated in Castle Peak Hospital, continued to provide treatment on a voluntary basis for male drug addicts up to November 1965 when it was closed down, following the completion of direct admission facilities at Shek Kwu Chau, and all drug addiction patients, including Government officers, at Castle Peak, were transferred to Shek Kwu Chau for treatment. Shek Kwu Chap is maintained by the Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts.

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