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Violet Peel Polyclinic.

239. This institution provides general out-patient services in the Wanchai district, a densely populated area in the eastern part of Victoria. Here, as at Sai Ying Pun, services are available not only during the day but also at evening clinics which are operated from 6 p.m. until midnight. Four doctors are available at the day sessions and 2 doctors for the evening Sessions. Specialists officers from the Queen Mary Hospital held special sessions at the clinic.

240. Here again the accommodation is totally inadequate to meet the pressure placed upon it. Attendances have shown a progressive increase during recent years and now equal the attendances at the Sai Ying Pun Out-patient department. During the year total attendances numbered 240,862 as compared with 235,740 in the previous year. These large numbers have created serious administrative problems, which can only be partially solved because they arise mainly from the inadequate apace available. Material relief can, in fact, only be expected from the provision of additional clinic accommodation in the area.

Kowloon Hospital Out-patient Department.

241. This is the largest and busiest outpatients clinic on the Mainland. Statistical information concerning its activities is contained in paragraph 190.

Public Dispensaries.

242. These number 5 on Hong Kong Island and 5 in Kowloon and, with one exception, the premises are old and outmoded and are endeavouring to deal with numbers far beyond their capacity.

243. A domiciliary midwifery service is provided from 6 of these dispensaries attached to which are midwives.

244. During the year under review total attendances again showed an increase there being 166,659 as compared with

414,084 in the previous year. Of the total attendances 300,097 were new cases. Details of attendances are shown in Appendix 14.

Government Families' Clinic.

246. Until June, 1953 this clinic. For the benefit of Government employees and their dependants, was conducted in the General Post Office Building in Victoria. However, in that month it was moved to new and very satisfactory premises incorporated in the new Central Government Office Building, the first section of which was completed this year. The clinic operates only in the mornings and is conducted by the Families' Visiting Medical Officer. There was an increase in the number of attendances which may be partly due to the new location of the clinic. Total attendances numbered 8,869 as compared with 7,904 in the previous year,

Police Medical Pust, Hong Kong.

246. This clinic is situated in the Central Police Station Building, Victoria, and is intended to serve members of the Police Department and their dependants. Attendances num- bered 24,500 and during the year it was found necessary to make the medical officer in attendance full time rather than part time as he had been in the past.

Police Medical Post, Kowloon,

247. This clinic was opened in March, 1953 and is accommodated in a large new block of Police quarters in Kowloon. A full time medical officer is available and total attendances were 18,818. By the end of the year the daily average number of attendances had risen to 110.

Medical Post, Victoria Renund Prison.

248. This clinic meets the needs of prisoners on remand before they are transferred to the Colony's prisons. Until October, 1953 it was under the care of the medical officer who was in charge of the Police Medical Pust, Hong Kong but the

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