was actively sought. During the year the Department co-operated in a number of exhibitions, notably the Chinese Manufacturers Association's Exhibition in December and January, by producing displays on various aspects of its work.
IV. WORK OF THE MEDICAL DIVISION
(Soc tables 44-47)
91. At the end of 1968, there was total of 13,925 beds available in all hospitals in Hong Kong excluding those hospitals maintained by Her Majesty's Armed Forces; in addition there were $26 beds in Government Maternity Homes and 443 beds in private maternity and nursing homes. The total 14,899 beds represented 3.8 beds per thousand of the popula tion. The figures quoted are based on the normal bed capacities of hospitals, but in some cases the actual bed occupancy is much higher as camp beds are used whenever the need arises. Development over the past 10 years is illustrated in Figure 12 and it will be noted that the bed provision in 1968 represents an increase of 93% over the bed provision in 1959.
QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL
(See table 48)
92. 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.
93. Work on the alterations to the hospital continued throughout the year and, by the beginning of 1969, the bed capacity had been increased to 980 and the use of camp beds discontinued. By the end of the year under review the alterations to all of the public wards of the hospital were complete and the wards were commissioned and in use. Work on the alterations to the private wards 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, an acute psychiatric ward and a new maternity unit to improve the facilities of the hospital as a teaching and specialized institution.
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FIOSPITAL BEDS 1949 - 1968
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QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL
(Soc Lables 49-50)
94. This hospital serves a population of approximately 24 million people living in Kowloon and the New Territories as a medical centre for emergency and specialist care.
95. During its fifth year of operation attendances at the casualty department rose by 11% compared with the previous year. Of these attendances 27% were due to trauma, the main causes being in order of frequency, domestic, industrial and assault cases. 31% of all the cases seen in the casually department required immediate admission to hospital and 5.2% were referred for admission to other hospitals such as Kwong Wah Hospital and Lai Chi Kok Hospital (Please see para- graph 152 below for details of operation of the casualty department of the Kwong Wah Hospital). The average time spent in the hospital by each in-patient was 7.6 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 admission neces- sitated increasing the bed state to 1,523.
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