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Films erpended

Mass Miniature

Queen Mary

Hospital.

Kowloon

Hospital.

39,433

6,912

15" X 12*

9,600

4,646

12" x 10"

9,557

3,201

10" X

8"

4,742

2,610

6* X

8"

5,914

3,293

5*

1,363

924

1,323

764

7" X Dental

211. Radiation therapy was restarted with the arrival of The supply of radio- Dr. II. C. In on 16th August 194. nctive cobalt element in the form of wires and cylinders from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, provided an interesting new development. At present their strengths are being checked and experiments are being carried out on the form of application. Professor Davies, Professor of Physics at the University, has given valuable help in this work. Work was also started on a radio-active cobalt "bomb" unit; the “bomb" carrier is now under construction and. the cobalt is being radiated at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment.

211. The Physiotherapy Department is under the adminis- tration of the Government Radiologist and a summary of the work done is set out below,

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214. These two assistant dentists were appointed at the expense of two assistunt medical officers as although there was, as always, a shortage of doctors the need for dentists was even greater. Some Government servants and families had been on a waiting list for dental attention for nearly eight months.

215. The principal groups dealt with are Government Servants and their families, children in the Schools Health Service and the free patients among the general public. Table 23 shows the numbers and types of patients dealt with at the three clinica.

TABLE 23.

Government Dental Clinics.

Harcourt Health Kowloon Sai Ying Pun

Centre.

Hospital.

Hospital.

Government Servants

Families

752

1,411

2,910

471

1,027

1,554

School Children

General Public

5,341

1,827

164

91

5,323

5,037

Total

6,655

7,588

9,665

Queen Mary

Hospital

Kowloon

Hospital

TABLE 22

Physiotherapy Department,

In-patients. Treatments. Out-patients. Treatments.

$13

157

3,923

4,257

1,293

12,093

2,062

17,768

212. Gifts of baths for the treatment of poliomyelitis and kindred discases were received from UNICEF. These have been installed and are in use.

VIL-DENTAL CLINICS,

213. There are three Government Dental Clinics, one in Kowloon and two in Hong Kong. All three clinics have been in operation throughout the year and in July, with the appoint- ment of two assistant dental surgeons, two dentists have been functioning at Kowloon Hospital and two at Sai Ying Pun Health Centre ja Hong Kong.

216. In September 1949 a dental surgery was equipped and opened in the Queen Mary Hospital which operated part-time for the benefit of in-patients and the staff of the hospital.

217. There are two dental inspectors whose work it is to inspect the premises and equipment of registered dentista and to investigate cases of dental practice by unregistered persons.

VIII-PHARMACEUTICS.

218. During the year 92 institutions were provided with drugs and equipment from the two distributing centres under the control of the Chief Pharmacist. The arrival and installa- tion of simple equipment has increased the efficiency of the distributing centre and many sterilised solutions for injection purposes are now prepared in the dispensary.

219. The Streptomycin Committee which was appointed in October, 1947, continued to operate during the year and has taken under its control the administration of Chloramphenicol and Aureomycin.