THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MAY, 1905.
Return shewing number of beds, of the staff, and of the persons whose cases have been dealt with by the Po LEUNG KUK during the year 1904.
Beds for the inmates, Number of staff,
...76
.17
Women.
Girls.
Boys. Total.
Inmates in Honte on 31st December, 1903,
41
16
59
Total admitted during the year 1904,
536
102
31
669
Total,.
577
118
33
728
Women.
Girls.
Boys.
Total.
Restored to parents or relatives or sent to
Charitable Institutions in China,
163
30
280
Sent to Missionary schools,
8
Sent to Convents,
Married,
25
25
Adopted.
9
11
Died,
2
2
Permitted to leave,
317
317
Still in charge of the Society,
59
14
74
Total,.........
575
120
33
728
Male destitutes sent home,
HONGKONG, March 22nd 1905.
SIR,---I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Honourable the Registrar General, the following Report on the Po LEUNG KOK for the year ending December 31st. 1904.
GENERAL HEALTH.
A
About the middle of the year-in May a few cases of Beri-beri occurred. These were promptly transferred to the Tung Wah Hospital for treatment. few more cases occurred. The whole Institution was then thoroughly disinfected and cleansed. These measures apparently did not have much beneficial effect, for cases kept on occurring. On reporting this to the Principal Civil Medical Officer, His Excellency the Governor was pleased on his advice to direct that the Government Bacteriologist and I should undertake an enquiry and report on the outbreak. The buildings were vacated and handed over to us. The inmates in the meantime, by the courtesy of the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital, were trans- ferred to two large airy wards in that Institution, and the Beri-beri | atients were treated in two isolated wards in the new Building. All these Beri-beri cases recovered except one who succumbed to Acute Lobar Pneumonia. The Po Leung Kok buildings were handed over to us in September, and we handed them over to the Directorate in December, after they had been thoroughly disinfected, colour washed and painted.
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