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Annexe E.
VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
REPORT BY DR. J. M. ATKINSON, Medical Officer in Charge.
Staff. Dr. Atkinson was in charge during the year.
Nursing Staff-During the year four of the Nursing Sisters and three of the Nurses of the Medical Department were on duty for varying periods of time when required.
Buildings.--These were maintained in a good state of repair.
Admissions, Diseases and Deaths. There were 309 admissions during the year as compared with 344 in 1910, with nine deaths, a percentage of 2.9.
The admissions during the last three years are classified as follows:-
1. Age:- 1911 1910 1909 Under 3 years, 96 83 82 Between 3 and 12 years, 53 93 24 Over 12 years, 160 168 113 2. Nationality 1911 1910 1909 Europeans, 149 176 106 Asiatics, 160 168 113 3. Class of Patients 1911 1910 1909 Paying Patients, 269 307 196 Government Servants, 15 - - Wives and Children of Government Servants, 12 2 - Free, 40 37 23Malarial Fever-There were only 31 cases as compared with 91 in 1910.
They are as follows:-
Simple Tertian, 13 Mixed Infection, 17 Malignant, 1Of the tertian cases three were from the Diocesan Girls' School, two from Lyemun Barracks, two from Quarry Bay, four from Kowloon, and one each from Kennedy Town Police Station, Military Hospital and the Peak,