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HAVEN OF HOPE SANATORIUM

176. This hospital of 310 beds is situated in the Junk Bay area of the New Territories, and a tuberculosis out-patient and follow-up clinic is maintained at nearby Rennie's Mill. During the year, the hospital was assisted in its recurrent expenditure by a Government subvention of $1,080,000.

SANDY BAY CHILDREN'S ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL

AND CONVALESCENT HOME

177. Maintained by the Society for the Relief of Disabled Children, with the aid of a Goverment subvention of $830,807, this modern children orthopaedic hospital now contains 200 beds for children requiring specialized long-term orthopaedic care and surgery. Patients are admitted to the hospital through its own outpatient department and other clinics. Traumatic cases are transferred from Queen Mary Hospital for convalescence. During the year an orthopaedic appliance department was opened at the hospital. The Hong Kong Red Cross Society provides primary school teachers to enable the children to con- tinue their education during convalescence.

OUR LADY OF MARYKNOLL, HOSPITAL

178. This hospital is administered by the Maryknoll Sisters, and was maintained during the year with the aid of a Government sub- vention of $870,375. It is located at Wong Tai Sin in north-east Kowloon and provides general in-patient and out-patient facilities for this rapidly expanding area. The new wing of the hospital was officially opened on 2nd December, 1969. The hospital now has a total of 220 beds, 180 for general third class patients and 40 for first and second class patients and maternity cases.

HAY LING CHAU LEPROSARIUM

(Table 69)

179. This leprosarium, situated on an island six miles from Hong Kong, is maintained by the Leprosy Mission, Hong Kong Auxiliary, with the aid of a Government subvention which in the year under review was $820,000. It provides in-patient and rehabilitation facilities for leprosy patients and has special facilities for those who require

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reconstructive surgery or who are suffering from intercurrent disease. Fortunately the decreasing incidence of leprosy has meant that the number of patients has fallen in recent years and at the end of the year under review there were fewer than 300 patients in the leprosarium,

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR REHABILITATION

KWON TONG REHABILITATION CENTRE

180. This centre, aided by a recurrent grant from Government amounting to $700,000 in the year under review, accommodates 80 patients and has occupational workshops and facilities for physiotherapy and for the manufacture of prostheses. It is designed to assist in the quick return to employment of those who have been injured, particularly in industrial accidents.

NAM LONG HOSPITAL

181. This hospital, maintained by the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society is situated at Brick Hill overlooking Aberdeen harbour. With accommodation for 120 beds it takes in cancer patients, convalescing from major surgery or from radiotherapy and also those with advanced disease. Chemotherapy is also given to patients. Cases are referred by Government or private hospitals or by medical practitioners, and it is the policy of the hospital to admit only such cases. All poor patients receive free treatment but for those who are able to pay a small fee is charged. Patients are provided with medical social service.

VI. DEVELOPMENT

(Table 70)

FORWARD PLANNING

182. Reference has been made previously in this report to the un- paralled bospital development of the past 15 years. However, the population has also been increasing very rapidly and there is consider- able pressure on most categories of hospital beds, particularly those for acute and chronic general and mental patients. The White Paper on Development of Medical Services in Hong Kong which was tabled in the Legislative Council in February 1964, outlined the medical problems of the Colony and made suggestions to remedy deficiencies in order to produce, in the face of a rapidly increasing population, a reasonably

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