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HEALTH

Service and the Lutheran World Service. During Chinese New Year a second exhibit was arranged as part of the fisheries exhibi- tion in Aberdeen. Dental officers and auxiliaries gave instruction in dental health and oral hygiene to over 23,000 people, mostly fisher-folk, who passed through the dental health stall. In July the Kaifong associations staged a health exhibition where again the opportunity was taken to present the facts of dental health and the principles of oral hygiene to an estimated 150,000 people. In September the Hong Kong Dental Society sponsored the second dental health week to be held in the Colony. The rules of oral hygiene were stressed in the schools and prizes were offered to children who recognized 'Mr Golden Toothbrush' in the streets and were able to answer questions on the rules for dental health.

TRAINING

Doctors. Undergraduate training is carried out at the University of Hong Kong, which confers the degrees of MB, BS; these degrees have been recognized by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom since 1911. Post-graduate clinical training is available in the Colony for higher qualifications awarded by 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. It is mainly due to this pro- gramme that 59 per cent of the specialist appointments in the Medical and Health Department are now held by locally recruited staff and that there is a progressive 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 local facilities for training in dentistry and although the proposal to establish a faculty of dental science at the university has been approved in principle it has not yet been possible to give this project a high priority. In the meantime a Government dental scholarship scheme each year enables a number of students from Hong Kong to study dentistry overseas and ultimately to qualify as dental surgeons.

Nurses. There are two Government schools of nursing. These are the School of Nursing in the grounds of the Queen Elizabeth