Medical and sanitary report / Hong Kong.

  • Hong Kong. Medical Department.
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: Medical and sanitary report / Hong Kong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    33. In the New Territories there is a well equipped motor travelling dispensary which visits those villages which are on the road and which are situated at a distance from the institu¬ tions listed above. Each village is visited three times a week. Cases requiring in-patient treatment in hospital are sent to the Ivowloon Hospital by motor ambulance. 34. Maternity and Child M^elfare is carried out at two special centres one in Victoria the other in Kowloon. 35. School Hygiene and medical examination of school children is carried out by the school medical branch of the Medical Department working in co-operation with the Education Department. 36. A special branch of the Medical Department working in close association with the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs makes periodical inspections of the Chinese Hospitals and Chinese ihiblic Dispensaries. 37. Bacteriological and serological investigations are carried out at the Bacteriological Instilute where vaccine lymph, anti- rabic vaccine and anti-meningococcic serum are 2U*epared. 38. The Malaria Bureau carries out investigations with regard to mosquitology and maiariology and supervises anti-malaria oiling and draining. It co-operates with the Sanitary Depart¬ ment and with the navai, militarv and air force authorities. 39. Quarantine and Port Health Activities, including the fumigation and disinfectioii of ships, the exainination of emi¬ grants and vaccination, are carried out by the Port Health Branch. 40. Eegistration of Birtlis and Deaths is controlled by the IMedical De2)artnient working in association with the Police and the Chinese Public Dispensaries. Non-Governmevf Orf/(i)tis(iHons oigaycd in Public Health Works. 41. Ill addition to the (Tovernment organisation there are in the Colony a number of Benevolent Societies and Associations whose activities in the ca.use of public liealth are of great benefit to the community. The chief among these are:—the Tung Wall Hospital Charity, the Chinese Public Dispensaries, the various Missionary Societies, the Crranville Sharp Estate, the Society for the Prolection of Children, the St. John Ambulance Association, the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Y.W.C.A. and the Y.M.C.A. 42. A description of the Tung Wah Hospital and the Chinese Public Dispensaries will be found in the body of the report.