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213. During the year, a prosthetic and orthotic section was established. The hospital also planned to develop the site adjacent to the medical centre by the construction of a nurses training centre, a physiotherapy block, a new chronic hospital block, and staff quarters.

THE HONG KONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS AND THORACIC DISEASES ASSOCIATION

214. The three institutions of this Association-the Grantham Hospital, the Ruttonjee Sanatorium, and the Freni Memorial Con- valescent Home-provide the great majority of beds available for the treatment of tuberculosis, and a close liaison is maintained with the government chest service.

Grantham Hospital

215. This hospital of 625 beds is equipped as a modern chest hospital and is adminstered by the Grantham Hospital management board on a fee-paying, non-profit-making basis. The Government main- tains 610 of the beds, but all staff of the hospital are provided by the Association, with the exception of government medical officers posted to the government clinical units, which are directly responsible for 218 of the beds. Because of the decline in the need for hospital beds for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, 78 beds been re-allocated for general use as convalescent beds for chest and heart cases from the Queen Mary Hospital.

216. The Grantham Hospital is also a centre for cardiac surgery. As a result of contributions from the Government, the University of Hong Kong, and the Association, open-heart surgery was begun in 1968. Staff of this unit consists of specialists from the departments of medicine and surgery of the University of Hong Kong, and from the Medical and Health Department.

Ruttonjee Sunatorium and Freni Memorial Convalescent Home

217. The Ruttonjee Sanatorium has 250 beds, including 40 for children. It is supported by voluntary contributions and by a subven- tion from the Government amounting to $3,700,000 in the year under review. Patients are referred for admission by the government chest clinics or the casually sections of government hospitals. Provision is also made for employees of the principal subscribers to the Association. Though the majority of patients admitted during the year suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis or its sequelae, more patients with lung

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cancer were also admitted. A special unit is provided for the manage- ment of patients suffering from tuberculous meningitis. The Freni Memorial Convalescent Home has 110 beds for adult males, and allows a greater turnover of patients to take place in the Ruttonjee Sanatorium. It is used for post-operative patients, and also for patients whose progress is uncomplicated but who need supervised anti- tuberculosis chemotherapy. The medical and nursing staff of the Ruttonjee Sanatorium operate the Freni Memorial Convalescent Home.

218. The hospital is currently co-operating with the Hong Kong Government and the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom In clinical studies on various aspects of the treatment of tuberculosis.

HAVEN OF HOTE SANATORIUM

219. This hospital of 322 beds is situated in the Junk Bay arca 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 subvention of $1,944,000.

DUCHESS OF KENT CHILDREN'S ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL AND CONVALESCENT HOME

220. Maintained by the Society for the Relief of Disabled Children, with the aid of a subvention of $1,677,569. this modern children's orthopaedic hospital now bas 200 beds for children requiring specialized long-term orthopaedic care and surgery. Patients are admitted to the hospital through its own out-patient department and other clinics. Traumatic cases are transferred from the Queen Mary Hospital for convalescence. During the year, a new spinal X-ray equip- ment was installed. The hospital continued its research on the treat- ment of spinal deformities with the halo-pelvic traction apparatus. Following surgery, rehabilitation is achieved with physiotherapy, occupational therapy and primary schooling.

OUR LADY OF MARYKNOLL HOSPITAL

221. This bospital of 264 beds is administered by the Maryknoll Sisters, and was maintained during the year with the aid of a sub- vention of $2,006,082. It is located at Chuk Yuen in north-east Kowloon, and provides general in-patient and out-patient facilities

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