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Annexe F.
# INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITALS.
Report by Dr. G. H. L. FITZWILLIAMS, Medical Officer in Charge.
Dr. W. B. A. Moore was medical officer in charge of the hospitals for infectious diseases from the beginning of the year until May 4th. Dr. J. C. Thomson from May 5th until December 28th when I assumed charge. The facts for this report were supplied by Dr. Thomson before his departure.
Cases of Plague being now treated in the General Hospitals only cases of Small-pox or other infectious disease are now admitted to the Kennedy Town Hospital. Ten cases of Small-pox came under treatment in the Government Hospitals (90 in 1908) and eight cases in the Tung Wah Small-pox Branch Hospital (69 in 1908).
## Kennedy Town Hospital.
Two cases were admitted:--
A Japanese, confluent Small-pox, died. An Indian, discrete Small-pox.
## Hospital Hulk Hygeia.
Ten cases were admitted:
European, one confluent, one discrete.
Indian, six discrete.
European, one for observation (Syphilis).
Chinese, one for observation (Gastritis). All recovered.
The Hulk Hygeia has now been sold.
## The Tung Wah Small-pox Branch Hospital.
Eleven cases, all Chinese, were treated at the matshed hospital:-
Four confluent, four discrete, cases. Three for observation (Acute Vulgaris, Syphilis, Erythema). Three cases confluent died.
The Government having given permission that the buildings hitherto used for a Plague Branch Hospital at Kennedy Town, and not now required for this owing to the erection of a Plague extension of the main hospital in the City, may be utilized as a Small-pox Branch Hospital, extensive repairs and improvements are being done to fit them for their new purposes.