CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]

C.O.586 12673

Table showing admissions and mortality in the Tung Wah Hospital during the first quarter of 1899, with the proportion of cases treated by European and Chinese methods, General Diseases.

Diseases Admissions Deaths European Treatment Chinese Treatment European Chinese European Chinese Treat-ment Total Treat-ment Total Smallpox 2 2 2 2 Plague 20 20 20 20 Influenza 1 1 1 1 Diphtheria 5 4 5 4 Dysentery 3 8 1 4 3 1 8 4 Beri-beri 11 12 1 5 11 1 12 5 Malarial Fever.- (a) Intermittent 1 7 1 7 (b) Remittent 3 37 12 3 37 12 (c) Pernicious remittent 1 4 1 4 1 1 4 5 Erysipelas 1 1 1 1 Pyaemia 1 1 1 1 1 1 Septicaemia 2 2 2 2 Tetanus 1 1 1 1 Tubercle 3 3 3 3 Syphilis, Constitutional 1 1 Alcoholism 1 1 Rheumatism 2 3 1 2 3 1 New growth, malignant 1 1 1 1 Anaemia 1 4 2 1 4 2 Debility 3 10 3 3 10 3 ... 6 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 14 8 1 14 8 1 15 1 6 1 1 15 6

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