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(c) Vaccination.
(d) Health propaganda.
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(e) Assistance to the destitute.
(J) The provision of coffins for and the burial of the dead.
399. Much progress has been made in all departments of the hospitals during the last few years. These improvements in- clude:-
(a) The appointment of University graduates as full time
Resident Medical Officers.
(b) The foundation of training schools for female nurses. (c) Extensions and improvements in the male nursing
section.
(d) The establishment of clinical laboratories,
(e) The provision of radiological apparatus,
(/) The establishment of up-to-date operating theatres.
(g) The purchase of motor ambulances.
(k) Improvements in the accommodation for patients.
(i) Improvements in quarters for the staff.
400. Today each of the three Chinese Hospitals has a good operating theatre where operations are performed daily, many of which are major in character.
401. In charge of the medical side (Western) of each hospital is a Medical Superin.endent, a graduate of the University, whose salary is paid by Government, and who is a member of the Medical Department.
THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL.
402. The Tung Wah Hospital was established is 1870 as a Chinese free hospital to be managed by Chinese directors under Government supervision. Added 10 from time to time it has now 460 beds of which 24 are for maternity patients.
403. Originally in the open it is now hemmed in by one of the most thickly populated districts of the Colony.
404. As the directors are reluctant to refuse admission to any deserving case and as the Colony possesses insufficient in- firmary accommodation for the number of decrepits in it, the Tung Wah is not only a hospital but a place of refuge for the old and infirm. It is old, it is overcrowded and in some ways insanitary, but it provides shelter, food and medical attendance for many sufferers who would otherwise have none.
Its reconstruction was under consideration at the end of the year.
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405. The staff consists of a Chinese Medical Officer of the Government Medical Department and three Resident Medical Officers whose salaries are paid by the Hospital. There are in addition a number of Chinese Herbalists who practise Chinese medicine for the benefit of those who prefer that treatment.
406.
1931
1932
1931
1932
Inpatients (General).
Western treatment. Chinese treatment. Total.
5,704
5,918
5,246 5,086
10,950
11,004
Inpatients (Maternity). Still-birth.
1,679 1,560
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407. There were 701 operations including many major ones.
Outpatients (General).
408.
Western
treatment.
1931
1932
57,003
Chinese
treatment.
184,997
34,095
185,273
Total. 242,060 219,368
409.
Bye Clinic,
1931
14,277
1932
13,022
410.
Baby Clinic.
1931
1,103
1932
1,486
411.
Deaths.
Brought in deali
1981
1932
2,314 1,869
1,618
1,013
412. A great many patients come to the Tung Wali Hospital from outside the Colony attracted by its reputation and by its charity.
413. A large proportion of the deaths in the Hospital occur within 24 hours of admission. The sick poor go there to die. 649 were brought in moribund as compared to 388 in 1931. Those brought in dead include bodies sent froin ships in harbour, from neighbouring hospitals, from the Public Dispensaries and from private houses. All are taken to the Tung Wah for the benefit of free coffining and free burial.
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