WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1929.
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A WEEK'S DISEASES
The following cases of diseases were notified to the Medical Officer of Health during the week ended November 16:
Cases. Deaths. Typhoid and.
paratyphoid fevers G 2 Smallpox kom 6.
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Puerperal fever
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Influenza
Malaria
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Taberculosis
Of the typhold cases one was non-Chinese Imported, vis
During the 24 hours ended on Monday the following cases were notiled:
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever. 1-
Smallpox
Diphtheri
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TUNG WAH
THE CHINA MAIL,
HOSPITAL
Review Of Its History For 59 Years
A HOUSEHOLD NAME”
before the Commissioners we should like to add one word by way of corrective. If the Hospital was, prior to 1896, in a somewhat un. Jaatlafactory condition in so far as Jacientific ideas of hygiene, etc.. were concerned, it was doubtless no worse than many other Institutiona of its kind elsewhere. The science
From the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital the "China Mail" of Health and Healing has develop
ed so rapidly even within the last has received a reprint of the Commission appointed in 1896 to en-generation that we, as layman, can quire into the working and organisation of the Tung Wah Hospital, have no proper conception of the with an introductory note, and a Chinese translation which should days immediately before the advent appalling state of surgery in the
be read with considerable interest.
period:
"Surgery at this time was at its lowest ebb. In the words of one of the living well-known surgeon (Sir Charles Ballance who had seen those days)
All
of Lister whose researches on We quote the introductory note:-
putrefaction did not commence until after 1863. Then, many hos- Fifty-nine years have passed which the Institution has made pitals, even in Europo, could hardly since the foundation stone of the since 1890. In those days Western have been In a much better condi Tung Wan Hospital was laid by His medical and surgien! treatment was tion than the Tung Wah of those Excellency Sir Richard Mac not only non-existent in the Tung days. Let us, for instance, quote Donnell, the then Governor of Hong Wah, but was the object of deep from the Editorials of that interest. Kong, on the 9th April, 1870; and rooted distrust and suspicion in the ing local literary effort "The to-day the Hospital is, in the words minds of most of the Chinese re- Caduceus," of July 27, 1927, at pago of our present Governor, Sir Cecil sidents. Take, for example, the 198, with reference to this Clementi, "a household name, not proposal suggested by some of the only in Hong Kong, but in China Commissioners (which was prompt. and among the Chinese overseas." acted on), that there should be The history of the Institution, a Chinese Doctor educated and from its incorporation to the pre- trained in Western methods. who sent time, would be of permanent would give such general assistance interest, but the materials neces as requirod, and keep the rogister sary for its compilation have not of deaths. In reference to this sug- been preserved in the archives of gestion. Mr. Ku Fal-shan, Chairman the Hospital. Fortunately Mr. in 1896, said to the Commissioners Chan Yik-wan, who has been at the Meeting held on the 10th secretary to the Hospital since April, 1898- 1899, and whose knowledge of its; affairs has been of service to us. was able to find, amongst his own pupers, copies of the "Ching Shun Luk" from 1895 onwards, from which we have extracted certain data (printed at the end of this [Report) which provided an Illuminating account of the growth of the Institution from that time to the present.
"If you gentlemen were to give an order that it should be done, wa would like it recorded in the books
"All operations were followed by sepsis, suppuration, cellutis, erysi pelas, septicaemia or Pyaemiu, Some hospitals on the Continent were closed because Hospital gangrene and death followed operative intervention. The Hotel Dieu in Paris, like all other has pitals, was a hotbed of sepsis, and it was remarked that the inscrip tion over its doar This in the house of God, and the Gate ot Ficaven' was more literally true than its founder appreciated." REMARKABLE PROGRESS Viewed in its proper perspective
one of the new rules of the Hos- pital, so that we might avoid having any trouble with the Chinese public The directors would not like to have the same treatment accorded then as was accorded Mr. Lou Wai-chun during the Plague when he had his and in retrospect, the history of the chair overturned and was pelted Institution is a history of remark- and continuous progress,
with stones, He Chairman of able
Was
the Hospital Committee at that time.
CLOUDS AND STORMS
We directors would get the blame from ita humble beginning as a any new rule were introduced such healing centre employing crudo The Hospital, like many other as you propose. We would not daro native methods and using herbal institutions of its kind, has had to
to make the innovation, ourselves." medicine, the Tung, Wah .hos face some passing clouds, if not
EARLY SENTIMENT
steadily risen to its present proud storma; for instance, the Plague From this the reader may gain a position of the leading Chinese hoa. Epidemic of 1894 evoked a great fairly true impression of public pital in South China, with modern deal of attention and much adverse opinion prevailing at the time. equipments and appliances and up- criticism on the Institution. This Hygiene was regarded as a fad to-date methods of Chinese and and other matters led to the ap- unti-septic and aseptic treatment Western medical treatment. This pointment, in 1836, by His Excel- was unknown. Cases
of sep happy result represents the collec lency Sir William Robinson, tieaemia was inevitable.
tive and unremitting efforts of the K.C.M.G, the then Governor, of a After years of continuous efforts successive Boards of Directors, aid- Commission to enquire into, and and improvements, what is the posi-fed by the advice and assistance of report on, the working of the Hos-tion of the Hospital to-day in re-the permanent advisers and of the pital.
lation to Western medical science? Hong Kong Government. To the The first meeting of the Commis- The Tung Wah now possesses an high administrative ability and the sion was held on the 14th February, operation theatre with modern and unselfish devotion of all those 1896; and the Report, consisting of efficient instruments, including a Directors who have preceded us, Ja Majority and two Minority Re- shadowless lamp which casts no and whose footsteps we would fain porta, together with the evidence shadow at all on the surgeon or his in some measure to follow, we de and appendices, was published in assistants wherever they may sire here to record an expression 1896. Unfortunately it is out of stand. The Hospital is also equip-of sincere, and humble tribute. print: it has in fact become a rare ped with an up-to-date X-ray ap document. We have, however, paratus, of which full use is made managed to secure the loan of a in both diagnosis and treatment, copy from the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, It has a large maternity ward, and from it we have had reprinted which dealt with 1,895 cases laat the Reports of the Commissioners, year. It runs a weekly babies' with the addition of 3 Chinese clinic, to which mothers bring their translation thereof. Owing to their babies for treatment, observation voluminousness, the evidence and and advice. It has an eye clinic the appendices have not been in-which is in the charge of an Eye cluded in the reprint.
ORIGIN OF INCORPORATION The Report throws interesting light on the origin of the Hospital's incorporation: it shows that the main object was to replace the
Specialist Consultant to the Tung, Wah Hospital, Dr. S. To Wong, D.O.M.S. (Lond.) etc. It now possesses a refrigerating machine Frigidaire') for the storage of vaccines and serums..
In 1928 the number of patients
'I Ta'z' or Chinese Hospital, con-treated by the Western Medical De- cerning which there were, In the
partment was as follows:-
Out-patients In-patients
21,810 6,419
year previous, some horrible dis- closures of "heartless cruelty and filth" which shocked the conscience In the name year the amount ex- of the community. It made various pended on the Western Medical Do recommendations for the improve-partment alone ment of the Hospital, which were
amounted to subsequently acted on and carried under the care of a Superintendent $13,569.54. The Department is out. In this connection attention and three realdent medical officers, may be drawn to claues 45 of the all of whom are Chinese Doctors Majority Report, and particularly fully qualified, and it has a staff to its concluding sentence:-
of nurses and male dressers, '
- ADEQUATELY EQUIPPED
"At the same time we think that it would be of advantage to the Hos- pital, would facilitate its relations In short it can reasonably be with the Government and the public, claimed, that the Hospital is ade- and would
secure continuity and quately equipped to afford skilled uniformity in its arrangementa, if there were associated with the an-medical and surgical treatment to nually elected Committee some its patients according to up-to-date Chinese residents of long standing Western methods, besides rendering who have had experience of the Hos treatment according to Chinese pital and whose advice would be re- spected by, and whose views would medical methods, for which it has carry weight with, the Chinese com- enjoyed a deservedly high reputa munity."!
tion; and in connection with the
It was thus that the "permanent Chinese Modical Department, we advisers to the Tung Wah Hospital" desire gratefully to acknowledge came into beluy and they have the valuable services and advice been a tower of strength to its rendered by our honorary Chinese management. To their sound ad- Medical Adviser, Mr. Tang H+kum vico and valuable assistance, the during our term of office. But as Hospital is under a debt of gratl-regards equipment there is one tude, and in this respect we would crying exception, and that is radium like to take this opportunity of re-for the treatment or alleviation of cording our humble acknowledg the terrible scourge of cancer. It ment to the present permanent.ad- is a serious blot on the medical vizers, the Hon. Bir Shou-son Chow, services of the Colony that, as far the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotowall, as we know, radium is not avail- C.M.G., the Hon. Dr. S. W. Ta'o, able to the general public for such O.B.E., Sir Robert Ho Tung, and treatment. We understand that one Mesars. Li Yau-tsun, C.B.E.; Wong of the private hospitals in the Kwong-tin, To Cheung-shiu, Li Po Colony has just purchased a sup- kwal and Fung Ping-ahan.
ply; but to the general maas of the people who have to rely on the Alone for the part it took in ment Civil Hospital, the Tung Wah Facilities afforded by the Govern- bringing into existence the office of Hospital, the Kwong Wan Hospital, "permanent advisers"-which has and other public Institutions, must had such a potent and beneficent perforce be denied the use of per- effect on the subsequent career of haps the only agency known to the Institution-the Report should medical science which can mitigate, not be allowed to fall into oblivion. If not cure, their unspeakable But apart from this, and from its sufferings when afted by that other historical data and its prac- terrible disease. We can only ex- tical recommendations, the Report prese, the devout hope that before appears to us to be of such absorb long some philanthropic person will ing interest as constituting one of come forward to supply this badly the turning points in the history of
needed wanted
PERMANENT ADVISERS
the Institution that we feel that it Truru deseryce to be preserved, and to be... A CORRECTIVE ›--
by more widely known than it to.
To those who, after perusing the A perusal of the Report, and of Report, may feel
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