ANNEXURES
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(A) Chart of the Organization of the Medical Department.
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(B) Maps of Medical Institutions
(C) Establishment of Medical Department as at 31.3.51 ...
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(D) Chloromycetin in Typhoid Fever
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(E) Births and Deaths-1947 to 1950
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(F) Notifiable Diseases, Notifications and Deaths-1946
to 1950
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(G) Tuberculosis Report
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(H) School Health. Results of medical inspection of
pupils and defects found in schools
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(I) Report of the Tsau Yuk Hospital
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(J) Total attendances at Government and Government
Assisted Hospitals, Clinics and Dispensaries
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(K) Cases treated in Government and Government Assisted Hospitals with the total deaths in the Colony for 1950
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(L) Patients treated in Private Hospitals
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(M) Annual Report of the Almoners' Department
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(N) Report of Malaria Bureau
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(0) Report of the Government Pathologist
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(P) Report of the Government Chemist
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(Q) Summary of the work done at the Hong Kong and
Kowloon Public Mortuaries
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I. ADMINISTRATION.
A. GENERAL.
Throughout this report all statistics will refer to the calendar year 1950 but the text will refer to the financial year 1st April, 1950, to 31st March, 1951.
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Once again early hopes for relatively peaceful developments in the department were shattered by pressure of events from outside the Colony, and many contemplated schemes for development had to be abandoned on financial grounds.
3. Unfortunately the same circumstances which called for caution in departmental expenditure also produced increased demands on the facilities available, and during the spring and summer months, when the population seemed to reach a peak, pressure on the medical facilities became so great that drastic changes had to be introduced in order to meet them,
4. The out-patient departments, primarily those in Kowloon, felt the greatest force of this pressure and the attendances at Kowloon Hospital became so numerous that the staff and accommodation available was quite inadequate.
6. To meet this urgent state of affairs a charge of one dollar was made for every visit to a doctor, except in such special clinics as Venereal Diseases, Tuberculosis, Ante-natal and Infant Welfare. This had the effect of reducing the number of attendances, primarily those with rather trivial conditions; but in the hardly pressed clinics, such as the Kowloon out-patients department, where conditions for attendance were already so trying that trivial cases were discouraged, the actual number of attend- ances after the introduction of a charge of one dollar rose by over 1,900 cases in a week.
6. This increase was in part accounted for by the fact that evening clinics from 6 p.m. to midnight were opened at the same time that the introduction of a charge of one dollar was made. These evening clinics filled a great public need by providing cheap medical treatment for those workers who could not spare the time to stand for several hours in a queue during working hours.
7. The pressure on the hospital accommodation was overcome to some extent by putting up additional beds in the wards. This, while going some way towards meeting the needs of the community, had the
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