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QUBEN MARY HOSPITAL

(5cc table 48)

83. This hospital built in 1937 is the main acute and specialist centre for Hong Kong Island and is also the University teaching hospital for the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong: clinical supervi- sion 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.

84. Work on the alterations to the hospital commenced and during the year the central sterile supply department and three wards were completed and commissioned. Work on the alterations continues so as to provide a total of approximately 1,080 beds by the end of 1969 and to set up an intensive care unit, and an acute psychiatric ward to im- prove the facilities of the hospital as a teaching and specialized institution.

The first Colony- wide

anti-

measles vaccina- tion campaign was launched in December 1967;

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child TCociv. ing the measles vaccinc at a Muternal and Child Health

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A baby receiving B.C.G. vaccina- tion. In 1967, 95.4 per cent of babies born in the Colony received BLC.G. vaccination s001 after birth.

QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL

(See tables 49-50)

85. This hospital serves the population of approximately 2 million people living in Kowloon and the New Territories as a medical centre for emergency and specialist care.

86. During its fourth year of operation, attendances at the Casualty Department rose by 8% compared with the previous year. Of these attendances, 24% were due to trauma, the main causes being, in order of frequency, domestic, industrial and assault cases. 27.9% of all the cases seen in Casualty Department required immediate admission to hospital and 6.4% were referred for admission to other hospitals such as Kwong Wah Hospital and Lai Chi Kok Hospital. (Please see para- graph 144 below for details of operation of the Casualty Department of the Kwong Wah Hospital).

87. The average time spent in the Hospital by each in-patient was 8.2 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. The pressure of admissions necessitated increasing the bed state to 1,501.

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