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Annexe F.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE HOSPITALS
FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
During the year there were 59 admissions to Kennedy Town and 100 to the Hospital Hulk Hygeia as against 62 and 167 respectively in 1907.
A list of the diseases treated is shown in Tables I and II.
Only 3 cases of Plague were admitted, two Eurasians and one Chinese. All died within 48 hours.
The cases of Malaria and Beri-beri were all admitted from the Japanese steamer Wakamiya Maru, which arrived from Bombay with the majority of the crew suffering from fever, several having died on the voyage. The disease started shortly after the ship left Bombay and it spread so rapidly through the crew that the Japanese ship's Surgeon diagnosed it to be Dengue. Seven were suffering from both diseases on admission, and four from Beri-beri alone.
The three cases returned as Choleraic Diarrhoea exhibited all the clinical signs of true Cholera, but were negative to Bacteriological tests.
SMALL-POX.
On referring to Tables I and II it will be seen that eleven cases of Small-pox were admitted to Kennedy Town Hospital and eighty-six to the Hygeia, but as seven of the cases admitted to Kennedy Town were subsequently transferred to the Hygeia, the actual number of cases treated was 90 and of these 26 died as against 97 with 33 deaths in 1907.
According to Nationality these were :-
European. Chinese, Japanese, Eurasian, Indian, VARIETIES OF SMALL-POX. Discrete. Confluent. Hæmorrhagic. Males. Females. 15 4 1 12 8 40 22 4 29 37 I 0 } {) NO 2 0 ご - 1 1 27 10 5 43 47 11 ac 5 72 25 Total, 1908,...... 58 Total, 1907,............ 59 33 DEATHS. European, Chinese, Discrete. Confluent. Hæmorrhagic. 0 1 1 17 Total, 1908, 3 18 5 =26 Total, 1907, 1 27 5 33The three fatal cases of Discrete Small-pox were children under one year.
WILLIAM B. A. MOORE, L.B.C.P., L.R.C.S., (Ireland).