(v) Dr. S. K. Quo, Regional Statistician, from 10.7.58 to 20.7.58. (vi) Miss Alice Schaffer, Chief of the UN.L.C.E.F. Area Office in Central America, visited the Colony on 28.8.58 for a two day visit.
(vii) Dr. Gay Pricto. Chief of the Leprosy Unit, from 31.10.58 to
4.11.58.
(viii) Mrs. Jean Arnold Tory, Chairman of the Canadian Committee
for U.N.ICE.F. from 4.11.58 to 14,11,58.
(ix) Dr. Chaisiri Kettanurak, Senior Medical Officer in charge of the Division of Leprosy Control, Department of Health, Thailand, from 29.11.58 to 6.12.58.
(x) Dr. Douglas Russell, Specialist Medical Officer (Leprosy) in the Public Health Department of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, from 2.1.59 to 6.1.59.
(xi) Miss Esther Lipton, Nurse-midwife Consultant for the Regional
Conference on Maternity Care, from 14.2.59 to 19.2.59. (xii) Dr. C. Y. Shu, Regional Public Health Administrator, on 28.2.59. (xiii) Dr. Yun Suk Woo, Chief of the Medical Faculties Section. Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Korea, from 10.3.59 to 14.3.59.
(xiv) Dr. CHANG Cheng Chi, Chief of the Epidemiological Department.
Taipei, Tuberculosis Centre, from 5.3.59 to 11.3.59.
(xv) Dr. R. B. Singh, Port Health Officer in Rangoon, Burma, from
15.3.59 to 23.3.59.
VI. BUILDING PROGRAMME
520. (a) New projects put into operation and extensions of existing work:
(1) Kowloon Families Clinic. Farm Road, was opened on 3.2.58. (ii) The Tsuen Wan Health Office was transferred to now premises
on 20.3.58.
(iii) The Kowloon Chest Clinic, after undergoing substantial altera- tions and enlargement was re-opened to the public on 10.3.58. There are therefore now two large chest clinics serving the needs of Kowloon.
(iv) The new Central District Health Centre, which was built by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, was opened on 8.4.58 and Ophthalmic Clinics were held at this clinic from 20.6.58.
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(v) A new Dental Clinic. for use by Government Servants and their families, was opened at the Kowloon Terminus of the Kowloon- Canton Railway on 14.4.58.
(vi) A School Clinic was opened in the North Point Housing Estate
on 1.4.58.
(vii) The new Floating Clinic, the M.V. 'Chee Hong" was put into full operation on 6.5.58 and has since then been paying regular visits to outlying islands and villages in the castern parts of the New Territories.
(viii) Extra accommodation for Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy has been provided at Lai Chi Kok Hospital. The buildings were completed on 22.6.58 and are now in use.
(ix) The Ophthalmic Clinic at Li Kee Memorial Dispensary was
opened on 22.7,58,
(0) A new Clinic at Peng Chau donated by the Jaycees and the Peng Chau Rural Committee was opened on 28.8.58 by His Excellency the Governor. It is a six-bed maternity home and clinic and is staffed and managed by Government,
(xi) The new Chai Wan Clinic was opened on 3.9.58.
(xii) The Kowloon Public Mortuary moved to the new building in the
Hung Hom Reclamation on 4.11.58.
(xiii) A new X-ray office for the Casualty Department in Kowloon
Hospital was opened in December, 1958.
(b) Buildings under construction or being planned;
(i) A new Maternity Home and clinic in Hung Hom, sponsored by the Kai Fong Association, is expected to be in operation next year.
(ii) Work on the new Sai Ying Pun Polyclinic is continuing. The Out-patient Department was transferred to old Tsan Yuk Hospital Building.
(iii) Work on the new Maternity Home and Clinic in Tai O was
completed on 31.3.59.
(iv) Work has commenced on site preparation for the new Queen
Elizabeth Hospital Nurses' Quarters.
(v) Planning is continuing on-
A new Health Centre in Kennedy Town,
A new Maternity Home and Clinic in Sha Tau Kok.
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