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TUNG WAH HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, 22nd Feburary, 1902.
SIR,-I have the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government the Annual Report of the Tung Wah Hospital for the year 1901.
The number of patients in the wards at the beginning of the year was 125; 2,989 were admitted during 1901, making a total of 3,114 cases; 1,899 were discharged; 1,071 died; leaving 144 in the Hospital at the close of the year.
The admissions during the past ten years have been as follows:-
1892...... 1893,
.2,455
2,255
1894,
...2,354
1895.
2,732
1896,
.2,041
1897.
.2,776
,
1898,..
.2,898
..2,542
.2,981 .2,989
1899, 1900, 1901,.....
Of the 2,989 Admissions, 547 were transferred for treatment to other institutions, as follows:- 18 to Government Civil Hospital, 7 to the Lunatic Asylum, 130 to Kennedy Town Infective Diseases Hospital, and 392 to the Tung Wah Plague Branch Hospital at Kennedy Town.
Of the fatal cases, 296 were in a dying condition at the time of admission.
There remains a net total of 2,146 actually treated in the Tung Wah Hospital, of whom 652, i. e., 30.4 per cent. were under European treatment, and 1,494, i. c., 69.6 per cent. under Chinese treatment.
483 dead bodies were brought to the Hospital mortuary to await burial. 84 of these, and also 63
bodies of persons who died within the Hospital itself were sent to the Government Public Mortuary for
internal examination.
Free burial was provided by the Hospital for 1,930 persons.
The number of visits to the out-patient Department was 77,842.
449 destitute persons were temporarily housed and fed.
1,952 persons were vaccinated at, and in connection with, the Hospital.
As in previous years, the Tung Wah Hospital was used throughout the Plague epidemic of 1901 as a convenient centre for the diagnosis and observation of Plague cases, a large airy ward close to the Receiving Ward being set apart for this purpose.
The matshed Plague Branch was re-opened for the admission of patients on 4th May, and was in use until 30th July. The number of admissions was 393; of whom 41 were discharged cured, 2 escaped from the Hospital, 1 was transferred to the Government Hospital, and 349 died; this gives a mortality of 88.8 per cent.
A second Branch Hospital was opened near Yaumati, on 1st July, but the epidemic rapidly decreasing there were no admissions and it was closed on 10th July.
The new Hospital buildings to form an extension of the existing Hospital on the opposite side of Po Yan Street are now nearing completion; and on 19th November His Excellency the Governor laid the foundation stone of a permanent Infective Diseases Branch of the Tung Wah Hospital on a site adjoining that of the Government Hospital at Kennedy Town.
A considerable number of surgical instruments were got out from England in course of the year. Dr. CHUNG was absent on sick leave from 19th August to 17th December; and Mr. Ho Ko TSUN, a student of the Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese, who had already been employed from 1st June to assist Dr. CHUNG in the extra work involved by the Plague epidemic, acted for him during his absence. During my own absence from the Colony from the 31st October to the end of the year Dr. LAMORT acted as Inspecting Medical Officer.
I attach the following Tables:-
I. A Return of Diseases and Deaths during the year 1901.
II. Showing the proportion of cases treated by European and Chinese methods respectively.
III. Showing General Statistics relating to the Hospital during 1901.
IV. Showing Vaccinations at, and in connection with, the Tung Wah Hospital during 1901.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN C. THOMSON, M.D., M.A.,
Inspecting Medical Officer.
Dr. J. M. ATKINSON,
Principal Civil Medical Officer,
&c.,
yc.,