Board and Midwives Board all have powers to regulate training and to hold examinations. The Medical Council is not an examining body and is concerned only with registration and professional discipline.
FINANCE
25. The actual expenditure of the Medical Department for the financial year ended 31st March, 1958 was $34,864,883 to which should be added a further $9,726,931 which was disbursed, in the form of subventions, to the voluntary organizations in the Colony that provide hospital and other public health services. These disbursements in- cluded $700,000 to the Anti-Tuberculosis Association, $1,243,805 10 that Association's Grantham Hospital, $715,000 to the Mission to Lepers, Hong Kong Auxiliary, and $6,600,014 to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, which received the main subvention. Expenditure by the Medical Department, including medical subventions, was approximately 8-37% of the Colony's total actual expenditure.
26. The total revenue recovered by the Department from all sources was $2,609,045.
27. The above totals do not include expenditure on environmental sanitation by the Urban Services Department and the District Adminis- tration of the New Territories.
LEGISLATION
28. The following legislation dealing with medical and health matters was enacted during the year 1957-58:
Ordinances:
(a) Medical Registration Ordinance No. 25 of 1957. (6) Midwives (Amendment) Ordinance No. 30 of 1957.
(c) Mental Hospitals (Amendment) Ordinance No. 34 of 1957. (d) Radiation Ordinance No. 35 of 1957.
Regulations:
(a) Medical Practitioners (Registration and Disciplinary Proce-
dure) Regulations (G.N.A. 49 of 1957).
(b) Midwives (Amendment) Regulations (G.N.A. 59 of 1957). (c) Penicillin (and other Substances) Regulations (G.N.A. 66 of
1957).
(d) Poisons (Amendment) Regulations (G.N.A. 1 of 1958). (e) Poisons List (Amendment) Regulations (G.N.A. 2 of 1958),
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29. The most important items of legislation were the Medical Registration Ordinance and the Radiation Ordinance. The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1957 re-enacted and brought up to date the law to regulate the medical profession in the Colony which was governed formerly by the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161). The main changes are the replacement of the Medical Board by a Medical Council, the introduction of compulsory pre-registration intern. ships and, by Clause 27, the general prohibition of the practice of western medicine by persons other than those with a registrable medical qualification.
30. Owing to the large number of unregistered refugee doctors in the Colony Clause 27 aroused considerable opposition. Some work in 'Charity Clinics' which provide a free or low cost service to the sick poor. In addition a number of the better qualified of such doctors were employed in Government Service and were thus deemed to be registered. At the second reading of the Bill an amendment was introduced to suspend the operation of Clause 27, at the discretion of the Governor. until such time as satisfactory arrangements could be made to give unregistered doctors an opportunity to sit an examination leading to a qualification registrable within the Colony. Negotiations to this end are in hand. This Ordinance. so amended, became law on 22nd May, 1957.
31. The Ordinance contains a section which permits the practice of Chinese Herbal Medicine by Chinese Herbalists.
32. The Radiation Ordinance (No. 35 of 1957) is designed to control the import, export, possession and use of radio-active substances and irradiating apparatus. It also deals with prospecting and mining for tadio-active minerals. The Ordinance establishes a Radiation Board consisting of three ex-officio members and up to ten members appointed by the Governor. The Director of Medical and Health Services is ex-officio Chairman of the Board. The functions of the Board include licensing, inspection and control of irradiating apparatus and Regula. tions are in process of being drafted to deal with these aspects of the work of the Board.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REGIONAL COMMITTEE
33. In September 1957 Hong Kong acted as host, for the first time, to delegates from fourteen countries belonging to the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization who attended the Eighth
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