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VII-WORK-DONE DURING THE YEAR.
Attached to this report are the following tables:-
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.
I. Shewing the admissions into and deaths in the Government Civil Hospital, during each month of the year, of the Police.
II. Shewing the rate of sickness and mortality in the Police Force during the year.
III. Police Return of admissions to Hospital from each district during the year.
V. General Return of the sick treated in the Hospital.
Va. Surgical operations performed during the year.
Vb. Zymotic Diseases, sub-group 1.
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Vd. Diagram shewing number of cases of Malarial Fever occurring amongst the members of the Police Force admitted in each month of the year.
VI. Shewing the rate of mortality in the Government Civil Hospital during the last 10 years. VII. Shewing the admissions into and deaths in the Government Civil Hospital during each month of last year.
years.
VIIa. The aggregate monthly number of patients visited in the Hospital daily for the last three
VII. Table of admissions into and deaths in the Luuatic Asylums during the year. VIIC. Table of admissions into and deaths in the Epidemic Hulk Hygeia during the year. VIId. Table of admissions into and deaths in the Infectious Hospital Kennedy Town.
Table V. has been altered in accordance with the Memorandum of the Sub-committee on Classific- ation in the last edition of The Nomenclature of Diseases (Royal College of Physicians, London), the separate diseases being given under the heading "General Diseases," the division into groups being omitted.
I have retained the Zymotic diseases in Tables Vb. Ve. and Vd. for purposes of reference. The total number of cases treated during the year was as follows:-
In-patients, Out-patients,.
.2,598 ..9,512
12,110
This gives an increase of 3,218 as compared with the year 1895. Minor surgical cases such as scalp wounds, lacerated and contused wounds, dog bites, teeth extraction, &c. which were treated in the Receiving Ward are not included.
In-patients. The number of in-patients was 2,598, as against 2,283 in 1895; of these 91 remained at the end of 1895 and 2,507 were admitted during the year.
The following figures show the increase in the number of in-patients treated during the last three years:-
Year.
1894,.
1895,
1896,.
In-patients.
...1,963
...2,283
.2,598
The total number of deaths was 143, a percentage of 5.50 as compared with 4.99 in 1895; of these 53 were in a moribund condition when admitted 35 dying within 24 hours, and 8 within 48 hours of their admission. Most of these cases were admitted from the Tung Wa Hospital, excluding these the percentage of deaths is reduced to 3.46.
The average daily number of sick was 102.56 as against 96.31 in 1895.
Of the total number of in-patients 399 were females as against 326 in the previous year; there has also been a steady increase in the number of women admitted as is shown by the following figures:-
Year.
1894,
1895,
1896,
Number of Women.
.....254
..326
.399
Our only provision for these patients is one general ward supplying accommodation for 14 patients and two private wards which are only occasionally available for women.