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In my opinion it is most important that Policemen should be on duty at the Hospital, as was the case in May and June this year, so that the necessary steps can at once, on admission of a patient suffering from plague, be taken to segregate those who have been in immediate contact with the patient.
I enclose a copy of the Medical Officer of Health's report concerning these two cases showing that by the time he arrived at the house all the inmates had fled.
I would remind you that on previous occasions I have advised you on the subject of patients suffering from typhoid fever being allowed to leave the Hospital.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
The Honourable
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
J. M. ATKINSON,
Acting Colonial Surgeon.
(Minute by the Acting Colonial Surgeon.)
The following diseases should, I think, be included :—
Small-pox. Plague. Cholera.
Diphtheria.
Typoid Fever (Enteric).
Scarlet Fever.
Typhus Fever.
Relapsing Fever.
Puerperal Fever.
These are the infectious diseases referred to in the new bye-laws approved by the Legislative Council on 25th November, 1895.
17th January, 1896.
J. M. ATKINSON.
(Acting Colonial Surgeon to Colonial Secretary.)
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No. TOT.
SIR,
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 4th December, 1895.
A patient, WoNG YUNG, ct. 25, who was admitted to this Hospital on the 2nd instant at his own request from the Tung Wa Hospital, states that he applied for admission to that Hospital at 1 p.m. on the 1st instant, and was refused, the Chinese doctor telling him that his foot was rotten and could not be cured.
He then went out and lay in the street. A Chinese Constable finding him thus after 10 p.m. took him to the Tung Wa Hospital when he was admitted.
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