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Advising the Government on matters pertaining to the importation and nse of radioactive substances and irradiating equipment for medical or industrial purposes in the Colony.
The Workshop.
99. This section is responsible for the maintenance and minor repair of all radiological and physiotherapeutic equip ment within the sub-department. It also makes many gadgets and accessory parts for the various machines. By the ingenuity and industry of its staff a considerable saving has been effected.
Ophthalmic Service,
100. The expansion of the sub-department continued during the past year. During 1955, the Government eye clinics dealt with 64,060 attendances for treatment, of which 30,377 were new cases. The Violet Peel Clinic now occupies the whole top floor of the polyclinic giving much needed additional accom- modation. During the year the Kowloon Hospital Out-patient clinic was transferred to the Arran Street, Mongkok, building kindly presented by the Rotary Club, Within half an hour of opening the clinic 93 patients presented themselves for treat- ment and attendances are running at 3,000 per month.
101. Considerable help was received from the Health section in countering two minor epidemics of acute conjunctivitis at the end of the year, especially in getting the public to bring their children promptly for treatment.
102. The aumber of out-stations visited by teams from the main centres was increased by one (Tsuen Wan) and an im- provised "flying squad" was sent out to three places to operate upon cataract cases in the New Territories, with excellent results.
103. Some 2,065 operations were performed of the "major or intermediate" type: the majority being carried out in the out-patient theatres of the two main centres. Some 50% of the extractions of cataractous lenses (total 302) were carried out in this method of "office surgery". The rapid turn-over of
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New Casualty Reception Centre, Queen Mary Hospital.
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Never Casualty Block and House Officers' Quarters, Queen Mary Hospital,
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