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Appendix 25

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Hospital Beds

Category of hospitals

Government hospitals

...

Government dispensaries

Government-assisted hospitals

Private hospitals

•

Private maternity homes

Private nursing/maternity homes

Total

...

:

י

241

As at end of year

1972

1973

1974

6,534

6,507

6,311

503

420

432

7,621

7,868

8,165

-1,838

1,849

1,938

195

162

143

42

42

45

16,733

16,848

17,034

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Professional Medical Personnel

J

As at end of year

In Government service

-

Total registered

1972

1973 1974

1972 1973

1974

Medical doctors

670*

715*

743*

2,333 2,533

2,723

Provisionally registered medical doctors

(house officers)

|-

128

115

123

194

163

171

Dentists

61

63

65

485

496

513

Pharmacists

24

25

25

198

209

220

Midwives (without nursing qualifications)

258

277

293

776

862

893

Nurses (general, male and female, excluding

student nurses)

2,160

2,269 2,374

5,851 6,366 6,906

with midwifery qualifications

1,450

1,582 1,561

without midwifery qualifications

710

687

3,969 4,169 4,391 813 1,882

2,197 2,515

Nurses (psychiatric, male and female,

excluding student nurses)

218

222

232

184

204

228

...

* Including unregistrable assistant medical officers.