433
Table IX. -Shewing the ADMISSIONS into and DEATHS in the GOVERNMENT LUNATIC ASYLUMS during each Month of the Year 1903.
1
1
3
July, August,
September, October, November,
ASIATICS INCLUDING
EUROPEANS.
COLOURED.
JAPANESE.
MONTHS.
Total
Total Admissions. Deaths.
Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths.
Admissions. Deaths.
Remaining on the 1st
January, 1903, .
2
10
January,
10
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
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19
17
13
11
15
11
17
10
17
$
1
3
3
1
2
1
1
6
I
December,
1
9
1
Total,
44
3
ΤΟ
101
9
155
12
ERNEST A. R. LAING, Medical Officer in charge of Asylums,
Table X.-Shewing the Number of Patients in the AsTLums during the year 1903, under the respective Diseases.
ASIATICS (JAPANSE
EUROPEANS.
INDIANS & COLOURED.
INCLUDED).
Total.
Males.
Females.
Males. Females.
Males, Females.
Mania,
Dementia,
Melancholia,
Delusional Insauity,
Epilepsy,
Alcoholism
and Delirium
Tremens,
25
Senile Insanity,,
Spinal Meningitis,
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1
I
17
9
33
29
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44
1
6
11
5
33
:
2
1
1
20
155
Under Observation,
3
1
Total,..
41
3
10
73
28
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ERNEST A. R. LAING,
Medical Officer in charge of Asylums,
Report on the Infectious Diseases Hospitals.
Hongkong, 29th February, 1904.
SIR,-I have the honour to forward the Annual Report an 1 Returns for the Hospital for Infectious Diseases at Kennedy Town, and for the Hospital Hulk Hygeia, for the year 1903.
I took over charge of the hospital from Dr. Tuoмsox on the 22nd August. Small-pox.-37 cases were admitted and 7 terminated fatally-3 of the fatal cases were of the hæmorrhagic type, and 1 case died of a syphilitic complication. Salol and zinc oxide were given in the majority of cases during the suppurative stage. With some of the later cases I tried carbolic acid in twelve-grain doses every 4 hours. This seemed to me to dry up the vesicles, and, where suppuration had already set in, to limit it. The cases I tried it in were too few to enable me to draw any definite conclusions as to its efficacy, but I mean to continue the trial. addition these patients are kept in rooms into which only red light is allowed to penetrate.
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