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not be sufficient; there are a great number of cases there which should not be treated there.
....Say a man comes into the accident "ward suffering from acute septicemia and there are six or seven men "round about him with open wounds. If you send that man away with his “septicæmia you are doing the Colony more good than by taking him into "that ward where you would be endangering the lives of the other patients."
24. Surgeon-Colonel EvATT, Principal Medical Officer of the Army Medical Staff, who has had a wide and extended experience of hospital and medical work in India, in his evidence, on 2nd July, 1896, states:--
"The bedding was absolutely filthy: I refer to the coverlets.
P. 65-74.
.......We Evidence "used to have these coverlets in India, but now they have been abandoned “for blankets. ..................Somebody has not looked into the details regard- "ing bedding and clothing. ............There is a want of discipline in the Tung Wa Hospital. ........ .........I noticed the want of classification amongst "the cases treated in the Hospital. I do not think that the Chinese pre- 'judices would be interfered with if a rough classification was attempted "of the surgical cases as opposed to the medical cases by the separation "of patients suffering from open wounds.
..The classification of "the inmates should be the first thing. The diarrhoea cases should all
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go into one place; and the surgical cases should be separated. They "want more cubic space; they should be in a ward where there is plenty "of ventilation and air space. There was a perfect epidemic of com- "modes and there were patients suffering from diarrhoea in the same wards "with other patients suffering from open wounds. ...............So far as "I could see every patient had a commode. ............ That day we visited "the Hospital some of the commodes were in a most dreadful state. The "stench was enough to make anybody ill who was well, and it must have been bad for the sick inmate. The Chinese in charge of the "Hospital might be induced to put these commodes out to a screened up 'place. The wards would be kept sweeter and it would not interfere "with the Doctors or the patients. ............Until the Chinese are trained and qualified to do the work, and to do it thoroughly, it would be desir- "able to have a European Steward at the Tung Wa...The inter- "nal discipline of the Tung Wa is defective. If this was remodelled the 'place would be at once improved................I think a series of English "rules might be translated into Chinese, and that the bedding and clothing "should be changed once or twice a week, so that the visitor to the "Hospital could see from the rules whether the conditions were being "complied with. ................................... There ought to be a surgical distinct from "the medical ward, because patients suffering from open sores will only "make the wards unhealthy for patients suffering from other diseases. .The Doctor who inspects should be a Government officer “and should have a representation on the Advisory Board of the Hospital. "He should be medical member of that Board.
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"blem (as regards Doctors), as you have here, was met with in India, "and has been solved. The English found a very strong prejudice "amongst the Brahmins on religious grounds, but these prejudices have been conquered. ..............Western medicine, so far as I can make out, has been put before the Tung Wa Hospital people in a most indigestible "form."
p. 58-59,
25. Dr. THOMSON, Superintendent of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals, Evidence in his evidence on 14th May, 1896,-being asked "During any portion of the time you "have been here, could the Tung Wa Hospital have been regarded as a danger to the "neighbourhood or a disgrace to the Colony in any way ?," replied:—“ A danger, I