and nursing staff. Since its opening the hospital has been playing a useful role in providing casualty and emergency services for the eastern part of the Island.
OTHER GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS
109. Other hospitals maintained by Government are the St. John Hospital, serving the Island of Cheung Chau and neighbouring islands of the western sea-board, the South Lantau Hospital, serving the villages on the south-west coast of Lantau Island, and six hospitals within prison compounds at Stanley Prison, Victoria Prison, Tai Lam Centre for Women, Tai Lam Prison for convicted drug addicts, Tong Fuk Prison and Chi Ma Wan Prison.
OUT-PATIENT SERVICES
(Tables 57-59).
110. Pressure remained heavy throughout the year on all 43 general out-patient clinics and also on most special clinics. Trends during the past 10 years are shown in Figure 12.
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OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCES 1961 – 1970
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111. New facilities which became available during the year are detailed in paragraphs 173 to 174 of this report.
112 In addition to general out-patient service, regular out-patient sessions were maintained at a number of clinics by staff of specialized units. Evening out-patient sessions continued to be held at 10 clinics
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in the more densely populated areas; they are namely the Aberdeen Jockey Club Clinic, the Kowloon Hospital out-patient department, the Kwun Tong Jockey Club Clinic, the Lady Trench Polyclinic, the Li Po Chun Health Centre, the Robert Black Health Centre, the Sai Ying Pun Jockey Club Polyclinic, the Shau Kei Wan Jockey Club Poly- clinic, the Violet Peel Polyclinic and the Yau Ma Tei Jockey Club Polyclinic. Sunday and public holiday clinics are also held amongst six of the above-mentioned clinics. The more remote areas of the New Territories continued to be served by two mobile dispensaries and the 'floating clinics', while the 'flying doctor' service to more isolated and inaccessible villages was maintained.
SPECIALIST SERVICES
113. There are Government Specialist Clinical Units in medicine. surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthesiology, dentistry, neuro- surgery, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, paediatrics. psychiatry, radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy, social bygicnc, thoracic surgery and tuberculosis. In addition the Professors of the University Faculty of Medicine act as consultants in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics, pathology and paediatrics. A number of Government Specialists act as Honorary Consultants to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and others serve as part-time lecturers in the University clinical departments.
RADIOLOGICAL SERVICES
(Table 60–61)
114. The Medical and Health Department Institute of Radiology operates a service comprising Radiodiagnosis, Radiotherapy, Radiation Physics, Radioisotope. Radiobiology and Clinical Photography. The Radiodiagnosis Division provides a X-ray diagnostic service mainly for Government institutions, but a free consultant service is available to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and the Pok Oi Hospital in the New Territories. Consultant services are also available to medical practitioners in private practice on a payment basis. The Radiotherapy Division based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Queen Mary Hospital treats over 90% of all patients requiring radiotherapy in the whole of Hong Kong and also some patients referred to the Institute from overseas. The Radioisotope service is included in the Radiotherapy Division. It serves mainly Government institutions, but a consultant service is also available to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and
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