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They were two of the first English trained Nurses, who arrived in 1890 to join the Nursing Staff of this Hospital.
The community has shewn its respect for their memory and recognition of their noble work by erecting two marble crosses in the Happy Valley, and a memorial window in St. John's Cathedral.
Sister CATHERINE was laid up at the same time with a mild attack of the disease and fortunately recovered.
The Staff was still further lessened through this epidemic by the death of Indian Police Constable TULSEE SINGH who for 11 years was the cook to the Indian patients and acted as Interpreter; he was a faithful servant to this Department and his loss was keenly felt.
One of the coolies and the stoker also caught this disease, the former died but the latter fortun- ately recovered.
The following table gives the number and classification of those admitted during the past ten
years:
1889.
1890. 1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895.
1896. 1897.
1898.
Police,
590
582
570
496
522
505
466
588
529
188
Board of Trade,
-135
110
135
157
132
100
129
87
45
65
Private paying Patients,...
402
527
464
378
467
491
498
632
603
741
Government Servants,
135
191
179
168
205
168
203
269
227
186
Police Cases,.
252
264
240
232
247
272
319
244
299
306
Destitutes,
279
283
279
284
262
427
668
778
742
785
1,793
1,957
1,867 1,715 1,835 1,963 2,283
2,598 2,445 2,571
From this it will be seen that there is a diminution in the Police and Government servants and an increase in all the other classes, this being the most marked in the case of the private paying patients.
The admissions and deaths in Hospital for the past ten years are as follows:--
1889, 1890,...
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1891,.. 1892,... 1893,
1894,
1895,.
1896,
1897. 1898,..
Admissions.
Deaths.
1,793
77
1,957
98
1,867
84
1,715
68
1,835
67
1,963
101.
2,283
114
2,598
143
2,445
119
2,571
138
The percentage of deaths (5.36) is higher than that of the previous year.
It will be observed by referring to Table VI. that the mortality has been highest in the three plague years 1894, 1896 and 1898; this is accounted for by the deaths occurring in the hospital from this disease.
LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
6. The diminution in the number of admissions is due to the fact that only those who have been certified as being of unsound mind are given in the table, in previous years those under observation were so included. During the year there were 6 deaths and 37 were transferred to Canton.
INFECTIOUS HOSPITALS.
7. Kennedy Town Hospital. In the months of January and February there were 70 admissions from small-pox with 16 deaths.
During the plague outbreak there were 379 cases of plague admitted with 310 deaths-a mortality of 81.79 per cent; 29 were under observation and 17 in attendance.
HOSPITAL HULK "HYGEIA.”
This ship was moved and anchored off Kennedy Town in the month of February, the Small-pox cases being transferred from Kennedy Town Hospital, so that the hospital could be available for plague patients.
MATERNITY HOSPITAL.
8. There were 24 confinements during the year, with no deaths. The one fatal case was that of a Chinese woman admitted from the Tung Wah Hospital, who aborted at the third month whilst suffer- ing from Malarial fever, she was moribund on admission and never rallied.
PUBLIC MORTUARY,
9. 1,314 bodies were received during the year as compared with 568 in 1897, the increase in due to the outbreaks of small-pox and plague.
Particulars as to nationality and cause of death are given in the report of the Medical Officer in
charge.