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196. In order to get some information on the numbers coming into the Colony records were kept from July until the end of October as to the length of stay in Hong Kong of cases admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital and it was found that, on an average, one quarter of the patients had been resident less than one year in the Colony, but there were occasions when the proportion rose to as high as one third.
(1) Nethersole Hospital.
197. The Nethersole Hospital caters in the main for patients who can pay a very small amount towards their treat- ment.
198. A total of 4,634 in-patients were treated during the year, 1,414 of which were maternity cases. 80,341 out-patienta were treated.
(m) The Ruttonjee Sanatorium.
199. The Ruttonjee Sanatorium, staffed by the St. Colum- ban Mission of Eire among whom are registered doctors, nurses and pharmacists, caters for tuberculosis cases only and all treat- ment is free. In general, early open cases are admitted and there is a close liaison between the Sanatorium doctors and the Government tuberculosis clinic at the Harcourt Centre, which makes selection of this type of case possible. 1949 was the first full year's working for this hospital and was a period of steady development. At the beginning of the year 60 beds were opened and these were increased until at the end of the first quarter of 1950 the full number of 120 beds were occupied.
200. 157 adult cases were admitted during the year and 94 children, making a total of 251. There were 9 deatha, all among children. There were 315 attendances in the follow-up clinic.
(n) Private Hospitals.
201, In Annexure L is shown the cases treated as in- patients and out-patients at the main private hospitals in the Colony.
(0) Violet Peel Polyclinic.
202. It was still not possible, owing to staff difficulties, to open the ophthalmic hospital on the upper floor of this clinic and it continued to operate solely as an out-patient polyclinie. There was a total of 99,482 attendances during the year which was its first full year of working.
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(p) Chinese Public Dispensaries.
203. There are 8 public dispensaries in the urban areas. One of these the Western public dispensary was closed down on August 6th, 1949, and the accommodation made available to the adjacent Tsan Yuk Hospital. These dispensaries provide. primarily, an out-patient service, but in some cases there are a few maternity beds and in all cases there is a domiciliary maternity service. These dispensaries also form a base from which the anti-epidemic work for the area is operated.
204. In view of the high proportion of the total deaths occurring in children under one year and the finding of the committee appointed to enquire into this in 1948, that 98% of the children under one year of age who died had not seen a doctor for more than 24 hours before death, it was decided to devote the morning's work at each of these dispensaries to a sick children's clinic and to deal with the adults in the after- noons. A start was made in January and the attendances at these children's clinics which totalled approximately 3,000 in January reached a figure of 10,782 in December. Details show- ing the attendances in all out-patient clinics in Government institutions is shown in Annexure J.
Table 20 summarizes the work done at these public dispen- saries.
TABLE 20.
Attendances at Chinese Public Dispensaries,
Out-Patients
Deliveries
Public Dispensaries
Hallora
Inocula- clone
Ne Cakı
Attend-
3DGA
1 patiente
Domfo Lary
Junghom
19,815 40,458
21,450 37,498 1,837
6,651 4,200
24,708 2,424
3,539 3,372
286
2,860
4,204
198
957
541 4,301 1,811
Central
Eastern
Western
+
Aberdeen
7.387 12.075
9,038 19,104
19,180 30,443
Add
Shamshuipo kuk
Stanley
Total
24,769 49,078
50,660 €9,047
33,895 65,402
1,220 6,301
188,023 | 320,466
FLA
177
2,014
348 20,177
21 1.152
9,301
58A
1,321 80,083 24,857
Shankiwan
Yaumati
1.25 12,49% 2,005