456
Hospital, 2 to Kennedy Town Infective Diseases Hospital, and
61 to the Kennedy Town Plague Branch of the Tung Wah Hospital.
Of the fatal cases, 81, 72 male and 9 fe-
male, were already in a dying condition at the time of admis-
sion.
W
122 dead bodies;89 male and 33 female
were brought to the Hospital Mortuary to await burial. I sub-
mitted 31 of these, as also 34 bodies of persons who died with -
in the Hospital itself, to internal examination at the Gov-
eriment Public Mortuary.
Free burial was provided by the Hospital
for 454 persons.
The number of visits to the out-Patient
Department was 30,279;29,077 male and 1,202 female.
232 Destitute persons were temporarily
lodged and fed.
The Plague Branch Hospital at Kennedy
Town was closed on 15th.August. I have already specially re-
ported regarding this.
Among surgical operations perforded by
Dr. Chung during the quarter have been Reduction of Disloca-
tions of the shoulder and Hip Joints, Lithotrity for Versical
Calculus, Extirpation of a Cystic Tumour, Circumcision,&C.,
The microscope obtained from England
earlier in the year is in routine use, and all cases of fever,
are