QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL
(See table 49)
90. This hospital built in 1937, the main acute and specialist centre for Hong Kong Island, is the University teaching hospital for the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong, clinical supervision is provided partly by the University clinical departments and partly by Government specialist units. Owing to the increased demand for services. the hospital's nominal capacity of 632 beds was augmented considerably by the use of camp-beds, which averaged approximately 120 each day throughout the year.
91. Work on the extensions to the Hospital continued and during the year the projects completed include the new quarters for sisters, nurses and house officers, the new nurses training school, the new operating theatre and professorial suites and the greatly-expanded radio- diagnostic department. Plans were also made, on the completion of these extensions, to alter the existing main hospital building so as to provide a total of 1,080 beds by the end of 1969 and to set up an intensive care unit, and an acute psychiatric ward to improve the facilities of the hospital as a teaching and specialized institution.
QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL
(See tables 50-51)
92. This hospital serves the population of approximately 24 million people living in Kowloon and the New Territories as a medical centre for emergency and specialist care.
93. During its third year of operation, altendances at the Casualty Department rose by 4.9% compared with the previous year. Of these altendances, 28% were due to trauma, the main causes being, in order of frequency, domestic, industrial and assault cases. 29.6% of all the cases seen in Casualty Department required immediate admission to hospital and 7.6% were referred for admission to other hospitals such as Kwong Wah Hospital and Lai Chi Kok Hospital. (Please see para- graph 148 below for details of operation of the Casualty Department of the Kwong Wah Hospital).
94. The average time spent in the Hospital by each in-patient was 7.8 days. Once tided over the acute episode of the illness, patients are either discharged or transferred to Kowloon or Lai Chi Kok Hospitals for convalescence. Pressure on the paediatric wards necessitated a re- allocation of beds in the hospital.
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Two new blocks of Nursing Staff Quarters at Queen Mary Hospital. They are seen at left and centre of the phowgraph,
with the original nurses quarters just vişible between them.
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