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In the same year at the Government Civil Hospital, there were 537 admissions to the maternity wards, 525 of these patients were delivered, 503 infants were born alive, 6 children who were born alive died in hospital, four patients left hospital against advice. 94% of patients remained six days or more in hospital, Some two years ago it was extremely difficult to induce patients. to remain more than three or four days in hospital after their babies were born, and the Nursing Staff are to be congratulated on their results. There were three maternal deaths.
Number of Gynecology cases treated...
Number of operations performed.................
265
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There are about 22 beds available for Gynecological patients, 14 in the Tsan Yuk Hospital, and 8 in the Government Civil Hospital.
Out-Patient Department. (G.C.H.)
Attendances at morning dispensary 1,604
Attendances for daily treatment
1,552
PAPERS PUBLISHED OR IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION
BY THE DEPARTMENT.
Published.
An Annual Clinical Report of the Tsan Yuk Hospital and the Maternity Bungalow of the Government Civil Hospital, being the work of the School of Midwifery of the Hong Kong University.
(Read before the Hong Kong Branch of the British Medical Association).
"Colonic Ether in Obstetrics & Gynecology," by S. K. Lam and P. C. Lai. (Caduceus, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1928, p. 238).
In Course of Publication.
A Note on the Efficiency of the Uterine Plug as a Means of Controlling Hæmorrhage from the Uterine Artery." (To be published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynæcology of the British Empire).
"A Note on the Drainage of Irremovable Ovarian Cysts." (To be published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynæcology of the British Empire).
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Hypertrophy of the Clithoris." (Submitted to the Irish Journal of Medical Science).
A Handbook of Midwifery by R. E. Tottenham, in course of translation into Chinese by S. K. Lam.
March 27th, 1929.
R. E. TOTTENHAM, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY.
Staff:-C. Y. Wang, M.D., B.SC., F.R.C.P., (Professor of Pathology, Formerly Assistant Superintendent Royal College of Physicians Laboratory, Edinburgh).
M. B. Osman, M.B., B.S.
(Assistant to the Professor of Pathology). Alexander Cannon, M.D., Ch.B., Ph.D.
(Teacher in Morbid Anatomy, part-time).
The department provides systematic and practical courses of instruction in Pathology and Bacteriology for the third and fifth year students in the Faculty of Medicine. It also under- takes the examination of specimens and conducts post-mortems for the three University Clinics. During the year examination was made and reports were issued on 1494 specimens and autopsy was performed on 187 cases.
For the practical courses much preparation of material is required. Thus in Practical Pathology each student has to be provided with a set of tissue sections, and the total number of such sections which are supplied to the class in the year reaches not less than 10,000. In Bacteriology, a subject which is now divorced from Pathology and dealt with by a separate staff in all Universities in Great Britain and in most modern Universities elsewhere, but in this University still grouped under Pathology, the practical course entails the preparation of a large variety of culture media and the daily cultivation of a number of bacteria. Time has also to be expended in the preparation and mounting of specimens for the Museum and for teaching purposes.
All these and other kinds of work have to be carried out by a staff consisting only of a Professor, a full time assistant and a
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