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V. Note 4.
seemed to me to be suffering from Typhoid Fever,viz., Fung
Kin and Chan Siu, the former had just used a bed pan, there
was no disinfectant in this pan. It is most important that in
any case at all resembling Typhoid, Jey's fluid or some
similar uisinfectant should be kept in the bed pan, indeed
I understood it was the custom now to treat all bed pans in
Two of the cases in the fever ward ("Fuk"}
this manner.
V. Note 5.
The new surgical wards below the Mortuary
should be provided with stoves or fireplaces as at present
there is no manner of heating them, the flagged floor is a
mistake and I recommend that it be boarded over.
V. Note 6.
"Mr. Chung was out when I called but arrived
when I was half way round accompanied me round the rest of
the building.
V.Note 7.
*He informed me that most of the "fever"
cases are treated by Chinese methods. This means that in
many cases the patients die of sheer exhaustion from the
lack of suitable nourishment.
V. Note 8.
He also told me that a case of compound frac–
ture of the leg which was admitted some few weeks back died
of tetanus. If this man had been sent to the Govt.Civil
Hospital as he recommended his life would probably have
been saved.
(5d.) J. M. Atkinson.
October 15th.,1897.
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