Enclosure.
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Re: 20 AUG 00
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 375.
The following Report of the Tung Wala Hospital for the Second Quarter of 1900 is published.
By Command,
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th July, 1900.
No. 12%
F. H. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Tung Wan HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 13th July, 1900, Sin-I have the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Governor the quarterly report on the work of the Tung Wah Hospital during the three months, 1st April to 30th June, 1990.
I returned to the Colony and resumed the duties of Inspecting Medical Officer of the Hospital
on 11th May,
During the quarter the Incinerator for the destruction of infected materials and refuse has been rebuilt, and is now in efficient working order.
A good microscope has been obtained from London at a cost of over £80 sterling, and is in daily use for purposes of diagnosis.
The following table shows the general statisties of the quarter :---
Remaining on 1st April, Admitted during April, May, June, ......749
Male. ...132
Female.
Total.
99
154
156
905
Total,.
1,059
Discharged, Died,
484
103
587
.283
54
337
Total,...
921
Remaining on 1st July,
114
21
135
Comparison of the total admissions with those of the corresponding quarter of previous years since I assumed the general supervision of the institution shows a steady increase :---
Admissions during Second Quarter of 1897
1898
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41
1899
1900
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..655
..700
..812
.905
I append a table showing in detail the Admissions and Mortality during the quarter, with the proportion of cases treated by European and Chinese methods respectively.
Of the 905 admissions, 329 were unler European treatment, 351 under Chinese native treatment, 2 were transferred to the Lunatic Asylum, 5 to the Government Civil Hospital, 57 to Kennedy Town Julective Diseases Hospital, 159 to the Plague Branch of the Tung Wah Hospital at Kennedy Town, and 2 cases of Plague were removed to the country under permit from the Medical Officer of Health.
Of the fatal cases, 129 were already in a dying condition at the time of admission, and when these moribund cases and the 225 cases transferred elsewhere as described above are deducted from the total admissions, there remains a net total of 560 cases that were actually treated in the Hospital. Of these, 251, or 45 per cent., were treated by Dr. Chong, and 309, or 55 per cent, by the six native doctors. Thus, while Dr. Chuso has daring the quarter had 45 per cent. of the cases under his treat- luent according to Western methods, in addition to all responsibility connected with the transferred cases while they were in the Hospital, each of the native doctors has been responsible for on an average uly 9 per cent, of the actual inmates of the wards. When it is borne in mind that until three-and- a-half years ago no cases were treated by European methods, the progress that has been made in the growth of Western treatment in the Tong Wali Hospital is noteworthy.
Two obstetric cases, both from the Po Leung Kuk, were attended by Dr. Chuse, who also fre- quently renders similar service in the homes of the poor in the neighbourhood of the Hospital,
One hundred and fifty-five dead bodies, 114 male and 41 female, were received into the Hospital Mortuary from outside to await burial. In 82 of them, us also in 42 bodies of persons who died within the Hospital itself, internal examination was considered necessary, and they were removed to the Government Mortuary for post mortem section.
Free burial was provided by the Hospital for 501 persons.