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children without charge. A mobile dental clinic of the Lutheran World Service joined the other which had been operated by Church World Service since 1959. These give free or inexpensive dental treatment to poor people in the New Territories and re- settlement areas, and visit orphanages and refugee hospitals. The Lutheran World Service also has a dental clinic in its new Fanling Hospital which was opened in April.

TRAINING

There are facilities in the Colony to train most professional and medical auxiliary personnel, and heavy demands are made on them to meet the great expansion of curative and preventive services which will continue for the next few years.

Doctors. Undergraduate training at the University of Hong Kong leads to the degrees of MB, BS, which have been recognized by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom since 1911. Post-graduate clinical training is available in the Colony for the higher qualifications of most of the examining bodies in Great Britain. The Panel on Post-graduate Medical Education, consisting of University and Government staff members, supervises this training and advises on both general and individual aspects of the programme. This programme is the main reason why-locally- recruited personnel now hold 65% of the specialist appointments in the Medical and Health Department and why there is a pro- gressive increase in the number of medical officers who have been able to obtain higher qualifications in various branches of medical

science.

Dentistry. Hong Kong has no facilities for training in dentistry as yet, although the proposal to establish a Faculty of Dental Science at the University has now been approved in principle. In the meantime, the Government Dental Scholarship Scheme enables a number of suitable students from Hong Kong to enter universities overseas and in due time to qualify as dental surgeons.

Nurses. One of the important events of the year was the opening by the Governor of the Sisters' and Nurses' Quarters and the Nurses' Training School for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital now being built in Kowloon. Government facilities for the training of nurses have now been doubled, there being a second school at