reign treatment. There were no complaints.
25th May, 1897.
(Sd.) W.M.B. Arthur, J.P.
H.M. Mehta, J.P.
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"We visited the Tung Wah Hospital this day, and found things satisfactory with these exceptions. Cases of venereal disease should be kept in a separate ward, and not, as we found, indiscriminately mixed with other patients. In one ward we found a man (admitted this morning) dead on the commode. In cases of extreme sickness such as this must have been, an attendant should be specially told off to constantly watch the patient. 151 male & 23 female patients.
(Sd.) A. Chapman, J.P.
H.N. Mody, J.P.
12th June, 1897.
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(Note regarding cases referred to in preceding minute.
No acute venereal disease of any kind is received into the Tung Wah Hospital. The cases referred to are ulcers of Tertiary Syphilitic origin, which are not contagious. Where these are foul and likely to be hurtful to other patients, they are isolated in Ko Fong wards; when clean and healing, they are treated in surgical wards.
The case of sudden death was a case of heart failure in a patient with dysentery. There was nothing in his condition to cause previous special precautions.
(Sd.) John C. Thomson,
Visiting Surgeon.