Government Civil Hospital, and possesses 88 beds. Though far from being ideal it renders most useful service and the quality of the work done is high.
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The prison hospitals are located within the two prisons Stanley (male) and Lai Chi Kok (female). The male hospital has 82 beds and the female hospital 14, including 2 cots for babies. In both these institutions a considerable proportion of the work done is concerned with the treatment of tuberculosis and drug addiction.
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The Social Hygiene Hospital for women occupies prem- ises once a private Japanese hospital, and is equipped with 28 bede. With improved modern treatment for venereal disease the necessity for hospitalization diminishes and the beds are being used more and more for cases of skin disease.
224. The St. John Hospital on Cheung Chau Island, owned and formerly operated by the St. John Ambulance Association but now run by Government by special agreement, serves both as a rural general hospital and as a tuberculosis sanatorium for leas severe and convalescent cases of this disease. It provides 102 beda but facilities are rather restricted, especially as regards surgery.
Assisted Hospitals.
226. The Government subsidizes the three hospitals of the Tung Wah Group, (1,239 beda), the Ruttonjee Sanatorium (336 beds), run by the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital (272 beds) run by the London Missionary Society, the Pok Di Hospital (50 beds) at Yuen Long in the New Territories, which is run by a Board of Directora on a similar basis to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, and the Hay Ling Chau Leprosarium for the treat- ment of lepers. This last is run by the Mission to Lepers, Hong Kong Auxiliary. The number of lepers accommodated is 580.
226. With the exception of the two specialized hospitals the others all deal with general medical and surgical cases, the Tung Wah hospitals being particularly useful by virtue of the fact that they take in a very large number of long-term patients. The maternity section of the Kwong Wah Hospital is perhaps the most popular and certainly the busiest in the Colony.
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Specialist Services.
227. Government provides specialist services in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, dermatol- ogy, radiology, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, dentistry and pathology. In addition, members of the staff of the University, mainly the professors, offer consultative services in medicine. surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, pathology and orthopaedics. Medical and Surgical Services,
228. As may be seen from the statistics concerning in- patients, the work of these services has continued to expand. Not only has it expanded, in regard to numbers, but the con- tínual advance in knowledge and technique has found a parallel in the complexity and extent of procedures undertaken. A notable example of this, and also of the co-operation between medical, surgical and radiological branches, is found in the new Lewis Laboratory which has recently been established in the Queen Mary Hospital. This is a cardio-respiratory unit in which, among other procedures, cardiac catheterization is car- ried out for the investigation of cardiac lesions and the selection of suitable cases for surgery.
229. A considerable amount of research work is also being carried out, and valuable articles have been published in the scientific journals.
Obstetrical and Gynaecologicol Service.
230. The specialist obstetrical and gynaecological service on the Island is provided by the University Unit at Queen Mary Hospital and Tsan Yuk Hospital. The Government Obstetrical and Gynaecological Specialist is based on Kowloon Hospital and is, in general, responsible for Government obstetrical and gynae- cological services on the Mainland.
281. Ante-natal and post-natal clinics are a feature of the work, and attendances continue to increase. One of the main difficulties is to ensure regular attendances. Numbers of admis siona continue to increase and bookings have at times to be severely limited. The standard of the work may be judged from the fact that in the Tsan Yuk Hospital, where there were 7,558 deliveries, there were only 4 maternal deaths. Of these
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