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When female patients were under treatment in the European wards, Sisters were detailed from the Civil Hospital staff for duty at Kennedy Town.
The staff of Chinese "boys," amahs, and other employés was increased and diminished as was found necessary to meet the varying conditions that existed in course of the year.
During my absence on leave in November and December, and until my return to the Colony 5th instant, Dr. R. LAMORT acted for me as Medical Officer in charge of this Hospital.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN C. THOMSON, M.D., M.A., Medical Officer in charge.
Dr. J. M. ATKINSON,
Principal Civil Medical Officer,
JJC., Se.. &c.
RETURN of DISEASES and DEATHS in 1901 at KENNEDY TOWN HOSPITAL.
in
DISEASES.
Remaining
Hospital
YEARLY TOTAL.
Remaining
at end of
Total Cases Treated.
1900.
Admissions. Deaths.
in Hospital at end of 1901.
Remarks.
GENERAL DISEASES.
Small-pox,
Cholera,
Plague,
Malarial Fever→→→
Malignant Quotidian
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12
43
10
15
204
156
201
Under observation.
1
1
1
Under observation.
Beri-beri,
Leprosy,
Pneumonia,
Total,.
7
267
179
274
JOHN C. THOMSON, M.D., M.A.,
Medical Officer in Charge.
Report of the Acting Medical Officer of Victoria Gaol.
VICTORIA GAOL, HONGKONG, 6th January, 1902.
Sir, I have the honour to forward to you for the information of His Excellency the Governor the Annual Medical Report on the condition of Victoria Gaol during the year ending the 31st December,
1901.
The health of the staff has been good in spite of the fact that the new Officers' quarters have not yet been opened to them. The health of the inmates has also been satisfactory.
Six lepers were sent to Canton, one of which, however, returned to the Colony and had to be sent back again.
There were a hundred and fourteen cases in which corporal punishment was inflicted during the year, fourteen by the Prison Authorities and a hundred from the sentence of the Courts; none required any medical after-treatment.
Overcrowding of prisoners is still a serious question. Four and even five men have at times to be put in the same cell, thus reducing the space for each to some 250 cubic feet, whereas the Public Health Ordinance, 13 of 1901, requires that the individual allotted space should be of 400 cubic feet.
The temporary hospital is also at times overcrowded. The Officers' quarters which were altered and fitted up some two years ago for the Gaol Hospital is yet unavailable for the prisoners, being still occupied by the Indian Gaol Staff. The present temporary hospital is most inadequate, offering no proper accommodation or facilities for the treatment of patients.
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