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Appendix D.
UNIVERSITY CLINICAL UNITS AT THE GOVERNMENT
CIVIL HOSPITAL.
MEDICAL UNIT Report by the Professor of Medicine.
Number of Inpatients :-
Men
290
Women
145
Children under 12
88
Deaths :-
88
523
Men
33
Women
14
Children under 12
21
Men, women and children died
within 24 hours after admission
7
II. Tests
167
on Blood Sedimentation Rate in various clinical conditions.
III. Blood Sugar Estimations.
IV. Gastric Analysis-Fractional Test Meals-31 cases.
This number does not include tests carried out on cases under the charge of the Government Medical Officers.
Marked Hyperchlorhydria has been found in.. .16 cases.
Moderate-
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Hypochlorhydria
Achlorhydria
Normal
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1 case.
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31 cases.
Number of Outpatients :-
75
A. Morning Thursday & Saturady Men, women and children
2,809
B. Afternoon Monday & Thursday
Men, women and children
4,707
C. Children Clinic:-By Dr. T. Y. Li
(Thursday morning)
997
9,086
The following special investigations are being continued:-
I. Clinical investigation of Nephritis:
(a) Blood urea estimations have been carried out
in 40 cases.
(b) Blood creatinine estimations have been carried
out in 9 cases.
(c) Urea Conc. Tests estimations have been carried
out in 35 cases.
Fractional test meals are being carried out in all opium addicts with a view to obtaining information on the effect of the habit on gastric function.
Specific Infectious Diseases.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis remains the most prevalent and facilities for the satisfactory treatment of this disease are sadly lacking. It must, however, be of some encouragement to us that many more cases in the early stage of the disease reporting in the Out-patient Department for examination.
are
Ankylostomiasis comes next in frequency. Such cases are from the New Territories and are all in an advanced state of anaemia when they arrive at hospital.
Malaria cases are frequent. They come mostly from Kowloon and neighbourhood but some are from Hong Kong, By far the largest number are the Subtertian type. Two have been of a mixed type and there has been one genuine case of Quartan Infection.
Pneumonia shows great prevalence and the larger proportion is of the Broncho-Pneumonic type in children.
Meningitis. Under this heading there have been many cases of both Tuberculous Meningitis and Cerebro-spinal Men- ingitis.
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