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410
Dr. JEU HAWK acted as Resident Medical Officer during the time plague was prevalent.
The Hospital Hulk "Hygeia" was moored off Kennedy Town Hospital from 2nd February to the 5th August and used for the treatment of small-pox cases.
The new Plague branch of the Tung Wah Hospital was opened by His Excellency Sir HENRY BLAKE on June 6th. It contains 7 wards and supplies accommodation for 64 patients. Sixty-two patients were treated there, and it was closed on July 21st. This hospital was built entirely with funds raised by the Chinese in connexion with the Tung Wah and it is intended that the patients can be treated by the native doctors or by European methods according to their choice, but the hospital is under the sanitary supervision of the Medical Officers of Health.
The following were performed during the year:-
VACCINATIONS.
Government Civil Hospital,
Victoria Gaol,
Alice Memorial Hospital,
Tung Wah:-
Victoria,
Aberdeen,
Stanley,
Shaukiwan.
Kowloon,
453
.2,887
321
.1,591
24
51
29
28
5,048
ANTI-MALARIAL MEASURES,
These have been continued during the year more especially in the Western District.
The neighbourhood of Magazine Gap as also the district at the Peak between Mount Gough and "The Falls" have been dealt with.
NEW TERRITORY.
Mr. Ho NAI Hor having resigned the post of Chinese Medical Officer to the New Territory, Mr. LAU LAI was transferred to Tai Po from the Government Dispensary at Wan-chai and took over the duties of the office from the 8th Jan- uary, 1903. He regularly visited the outstations including the Leper settlement at Au-tau, 150 visits being paid during the year.
The total number of out-patients treated was 2,196 as compared with 1,749 in 1902, an increase of 447.
Malarial Ferers.-There was a considerable increase in the number of patients treated suffering from this class of diseases, the numbers being 525 as against 275 in 1902, a clear proof that the inhabitants are beginning to realise the benefits of
western treatment.
The Police have suffered somewhat more from fever than in the previous year although there is still a marked decrease in the number of cases as compared with 1901.
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Plague. An Indian Policeman from Sha Tau Kok was sent in to hospital suffering from plague; eleven other cases of plague occurred during the year; these are referred to in the report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Small-pox.—There was no epidemic this year such as occurred in 1902. Only one case was reported, that of a Chinese boy at Tong To Chan in the Sha Tau Kok district. He made a good recovery.
Vaccinations.-516 were vaccinated as compared with 336 in 1902. 216 chil- dren were vaccinated by Mr. LAU LAI, the remaining 300 by three Chinese local Vaccinators whom the Government supplied with calf lymph.
Cholera. No cases occurred during the year. There was however an outbreak of summer diarrhoea at UN LOONG, in the Au Tau district, between twenty and thirty children dying of this disease after from two to three days' illness.