it was found on investigation that 70 occurred in seamen outside Hong Kong, and that 53 were due to natural causes or the person was not employed at the time. Of the remaining 136 the manufacturing industries accounted for 43 and the construction industry for 38.
82. Monitoring of air pollutants continued, the number of stations being increased to 33. 5 new stations were installed in the New Territories and one in Hong Kong Island. A complete coverage of the Colony has now been achieved. 4 Assistant Smoke Inspectors were appointed to the Air Pollution Control Unit in November and it is hoped that the establishment of 7 will be completed by April 1971- A reconstituted Air Pollution Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. J. L. MARDEN, J.P., met for the first time in March and will in future hold meetings at regular two monthly intervals.
83. The Industrial Health Laboratory was designated by the World Health Organization in December as a national laboratory which will take part in an international study on air pollution in conjunction with other national laboratories throughout the world.
84. Industrial Medical Officers participated in Medical Boards, held under the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance, and assessed the disability of 6,426 injured workers. Health visitors and industrial nurses carried out case work and visited homes as well as attending at the casualty departments of major hospitals.
HEALTH EDUCATION
85. A better appreciation by the Colony's population of the basic principles of personal and environmental hygiene and the prevention of disease continued to be the main health objective. A very wide field was covered by many branches of the Medical and Health Depart- ment and the co-operation of all voluntary agencies interested in such topics was actively sought.
IV. WORK OF THE MEDICAL DIVISION
(Tables 46-69)
86. At the end of 1970, there was a total of 15,638 beds available in all hospitals in Hong Kong excluding those hospitals maintained by Her Majesty's Armed Forces, in addition, there were 489 beds in Government maternity homes and 344 beds in private maternity and
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nursing homes. The total 16.471 beds represented 4.2 beds per thousand of the population. 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 11 and it will be noted that the bed provision in 1970 represents an increase of 66% over the bed provision in 1961.
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87. 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 supervision is provided partly by the University Clinical Departments and partly by Government Specialist Units.
88. The total bed capacity in Queen Mary Hospital was 1,062 at the end of 1970. On completion of the new maternity ward and other minor alterations at the end of the year under review, the bed complement has been further increased to 1,155. The Intensive Care Unit began to function in November 1970. An Organ Transplant Unit was set up în February 1971. The new maternity ward on the roof of A and B blocks was commissioned in January 1971. The major works now in progress
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