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Enclosure to Despatch No. 92 of the 19th March, 1908.
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Tung Wah Hospital,
Hongkong, 14th February 1902.
I have the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government the quarterly report on the work of the Tung Wah Hospital during the three months, 1st October to 31st December, 1901.
The following table shows the general statistics of the quarter:
Male Female Total Remaining on 1st October 149 31 170 Admitted October, November and December 331 110 741 Total 911 Discharged 413 34 477 Died 243 47 290 Total 787 Remaining on 1st January, 1903 134 20 144The number of Admissions during the corresponding quarter of 1900 was 733, and during that of 1899, 609.
I append a table showing in detail the Admissions and Mortality in the Hospital during the past quarter, with the proportion of cases treated by European and Chinese methods respectively.
Of the 741 Admissions, four were transferred to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment.
Of the fatal cases, 54 were in a dying condition at the time of admission.
There remains a net total of 683 treated in the Tung Wah Hospital, of whom 177 were under European treatment, and 506 under Chinese treatment.
94 dead bodies, 70 male and 24 female, were received into the Hospital Mortuary to await burial. Four of these, and also twelve bodies of persons who died within the Hospital, were sent to the Public Mortuary for internal post-mortem examination.
J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer.
Free burials were provided for 345 persons. 24,520 persons, 17,294 male and 7,383 female, were treated...
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