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On account of the demolition of the old wards for reconstruction the number of available beds was more limited than in the year previous.
The total admissions to Hospital numbered 4,255 as against 3,723 in 1909.
There were 251 patients under treatment on January 1st, 1910, these cases having been admitted in 1909, so that the total number of cases treated during the year was 4,506. Of this total 2,925 were discharged, 1,333 died, and 248 were under treatment at the close of the year.
Of the 1,255 cases 107 were transferred elsewhere for treatment as follows:
Government Civil Hospital 1 Diseases Hospital 104 31 107Three hundred and eighty-seven (387) cases were admitted in a moribund condition and died shortly after admission, and if this number is deducted from the total of admissions there remains a balance of 3,868 of which 1,921 selected Western treatment and 1,947 native. As regards the percentage of cases under Western and Chinese treatment they practically coincide with that of the year previous, i.e., 50 per cent.
The total number of visits to the out-patient department was 111,749 (118,324 in 1909).
Of this number 102,885 selected native Chinese doctors and 8,864 the Western trained resident Chinese doctors.
Vaccinations.—There were 1,581 vaccinations during the year at the Hospital or in connection with it (1,212 in 1909).
Two thousand and ninety-four (2,094) destitutes (2,088 males and 6 females) were temporarily sheltered, until they could be sent to their native villages or otherwise provided for.
Of this total 1,928 were sent in by the Registrar General.
One thousand one hundred and seventy-six (1,176) bodies were brought to the hospital mortuary to await burial (1,138 in 1909).
Where the history as regards cause of death was unsatisfactory the bodies were sent to the public mortuary for examination. The total number sent amounted to one hundred and forty-eight (148) — fifty-five (55) being hospital in-patients and ninety-three (93) having been brought into the hospital dead (140 in 1909).
Free burials were provided by the Hospital to 3,628 poor persons (3,690 in 1909).