fit to earn their living. Two wards were especially set up for this pur- pose. The usual therapeutic measures, including occupational therapy, group therapy and re-cducation, 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 found employment while still in hospital. They were later discharged for full- time employment. Planning continued for another mental hospital which will be sited at Lai Chi Kok.
112. A wide variety of social and recreational activities was organized for the patients. A patients' Social Club was established.
Psychiatric Centres (Table 52)
113. The Yau Ma Tei Psychiatric Centre provides treatment for both out- and day-patients, including follow-up cases from Castle Peak Hospital. Its facilities include a Child Psychiatric Unit. The Day Hospital was found most useful for the treatment of psychoneurotics and disturbed adolescents and children. On Hong Kong Island the Hong Kong Psychiatric Centre, which is also the Headquarters of the Mental Health Service, continued to see out- and day-patients, follow-up cases from Castle Peak Hospital and forensic cases. In addition to these centres, psychiatric services were provided for the Psychiatrie Observa- tion Unit in Victoria Reception Centre and for the Lai Chi Kok Female Prison.
New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
114. This Association, with the close co-operation of the Mental Health Service, operates the New Life Rehabilitation Farm adjacent to Castle Peak Hospital for the benefit of patients requiring a period of orientation before returning to full social and economic activity in the community. A hostel on the Farm was opened on 26th April, 1969. accommodating 20 discharged mainly chronic schizophrenic patients at a time. The Association also owns a "Half-way Home' in Hạng Hom- a hostel accommodating 67 selected discharged patients from Castle Peak Hospital. These patients spend a transitional period there before returning to normal society.
Drug Addiction
115. Voluntary patients who were wholly treated in the former Castle Peak Drug Addiction Treatment Centre before the opening of the Shek Kwu Chau Centre have remained in close contact with a Medical Social
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Worker of the Mental Health Service and have organized themselves into an informal social and recreational group. This has not only prevented relapses but made it possible to know with considerable accuracy whether or not they had relapsed. A pamphlet outlining the scientific basis of assessing the effectiveness of treatment and the results of the follow-up of this group of patients has been printed for general information.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITALS
116. There are two hospitals which admit patients suffering from infectious diseases—the Sai Ying Pun Hospital on Hong Kong Island and the Lai Chi Kok Hospital in Kowloon; the latter also provides some accommodation for convalescent cases from the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals.
117. The general pattern of admissions followed the trend expe- rienced in previous years. There was a further reduction in the number of admissions for diphtheria and a slight increase for poliomyelitis.
118. Typhoid admissions showed a definite decrease compared with previous years. The disease occurred mainly amongst children and adolescents and was often extremely mild. Measles showed a welcome drop both in incidence and mortality. However, as in previous years. children continued to be admitted in the terminal stages of post-measles broncho-pneumonia.
119. The first case of cholera was confirmed on Sth July, 1969, in Kowloon. In all there were 9 cases of confirmed cholera in the year fincluding one imported case), and all occurred in Kowloon and the New Territories areas, whereas the Hong Kong Island was free from the disease. All the 9 confirmed cholera cases were treated and dis- charged well from Lai Chi Kok Hospital. The Chatham Road Quarantine Centre was opened on 12th July, 1969, for isolation of contacts of cholera cases. Up to the date of closure of the Quarantine Centre, a total of 82 contacts were isolated, and amongst them 22 were proved to be carriers of the disease.
TANG SHIU KIN HOSPITAL
120. This hospital is situated at Morrison Hill, Hong Kong. It was opened on 15th April, 1969, and replaced the Eastern Public Dispensary and Maternity Home, the Harcourt Health Centre and the Wan Chai Social Hygiene Female Clinic.
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