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(p) New Territories Medical Centres & Maternity Homes.

206. There are 10 fixed medical centres operating in the New Territories together with two mobile units. The work of these fixed and mobile dispensaries is co-ordinated by an officer combining the functions of a medical officer and medical officer of health. Table 21 gives a summary of the work done by these units.

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TABLE 21.

Medical Centres-New Territories.

Out-patiente

Deliveries

Dispensaries

New

Cases

Attendances In-patients | Domiciliary

11,389

28,586

551

16

1,927

4,859

$1

Shataukok

2,048

7,073

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Un Long

11,202

33,340

570

112

Sen Hui

1,822

3,823

I

147

Sai Kung

3,449

6,547

44

62

Tai O

8,709

15,761

263

T2

Silver Mine Bay

434

553

Ting Chau

1,552

2,971

Travelling (East)

2,689

5,314

(West)

H

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1,980

3,192

Total

50,801

112,008

1,595

150

(q) Ambulance Service.

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208. The Medical Department provides an ambulance service for all parts of the Colony for cases other than accidents and street emergencies which are dealt with by the Fire Brigade, This service is provided free of charge for all patients. The total mileage run by Medical Department transport during the year was 281,239 miles; of these 129,261 miles were run by the ambulance service.

209. There were 13 ambulances in use, 6 in Hong Kong, 6 in Kowloon and 2 in the New Territories. 6,021 patients were carried by the ambulances in Hong Kong and 15,120 in Kowloon,

(r) X-ray Department.

210. The transfer of the Royal Navy to their own hospital at the beginning of the year released a considerable amount of space in the X-ray Department and og a result the physiotherapy department at the Queen Mary Hospital was able to move back into its pre-war quarters. Table 22 gives a summary of the work done in the X-ray Department during 1949.

TABLE 22.

Work done in the X-ray department,

Queen Mary

Kowloon

Examinations made

Chest

Hospital.

Hospital.

51,913

10,419

Bones

4,351

4.098

Abdomen

1,037

5667

Barium Meals

511

186

Intravenous Pyelography...

195

59

Bronchogram

32

3

Cystogram

16

6

Myelogram

3

Retro: pyelogram

Cholecystogram

Pleurogram

CholangiogramO

Ventriculogram ...............

63

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İLARNING

206. In October 1948 it was decided to organize the Ho Tung Dispensary to enable a small number of general in-patients to be admitted, primarily for members of the Police Force who would otherwise be "sick in quarters". 112 patients were treated during 1949.

207. The Ruttonjee Dispensary which was originally presented to the Government by Mr. J. H. Ruttonjee, C.B.E. was formally handed back to him in January 1949.

Encephalogram

Arteriogram

Salpingogram

Dental

9

1

1

90

2

385

478

58,629

15,831