Meeting of the Health Committee held on Monday, January" 15, 1928, at 4.80 p.m.
Venereal Diseases.—A further letter from the General Secretary to the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases concerning the steps taken to carry out the recommendations of the Commission which visited. Shanghai during 1920, is submitted, and, in con—nexion therewith, consideration is given to the recommendation by the Commissioner of Public Health that a free clinic for the foreign sea-faring population be formed at the General Hospital, under the charge of Dr. McKinstry, the V. D._ Officer.
The Commissioner of Public Health- states that, at present, a free venereal out-patients clinic is open at the General Hospital in the forenoons, but that it is not much attended by sea-farers; that the hour is unsuitable, and no special effort is made to inform shipping companies, masters and crews as to provision for treatment. With the approval of the Governors, he suggests that the outpatients department of the hospital be used for the proposed clinic, which would be open two or three days a week from 5 to 7 p.m. As this propose: accords with the Council's view, published in the Gazette of May %, 1921, that the needs of the sca-faring population should receive adequate attention and as the estimated cost is small, the Committee, after short deliberation, accords its approval. Towards conclusion of the discussion, the Commissioner of Public Health states that, if the proposed clinic meets with success, an estimate could be'made of the average cost per head per visit and an experimental clinic for Chinese opened at the Isolation Hospital for Chinese, with charges based on that estimate.
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