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Annexe J.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
REPORT BY DR. P. J. KELLY, Visiting Medical Officer. Buildings and Equipment. The hospital buildings during the year have been well maintained and there has been some considerable improvement in equipment.
The new hospital extension (four wards) were opened in May. They contain sixty-five beds which brings the total number of beds in this hospital up to 326.
In this new block four wards were set aside for the treatment of Plague, Typhoid Fever and other infectious diseases excluding Small-pox and Leprosy.
During the year (in July) the Refuge attached to this hospital was opened. It will accommodate about sixty destitutes.
As regards equipment, there has been some very satisfactory progress. Owing to the sympathy and generosity of this year's Directors, we have been enabled to so improve the Operating Theatre that it compares very favourably with any in this Colony. For the wooden floor, tiles have been substituted, and a new aseptic operating table, instrument cupboard, and instruments have been procured from England.
Several new text and reference books have been added to the hospital library.
Finally, a trained Chinese female nurse was attached to the establishment in February with very satisfactory results.
Staff—House Surgeon Dr. To Ying Kwan, one Dispenser, one Chemical Clerk, a senior student of the Hongkong College of Medicine, and one trained female nurse.
Statistics.—The hospital with its new additions has been able to cope with all requirements for accommodation.
The total number of admissions to hospital numbered 3,897 as against 4,255 in 1910.
There were 248 patients under treatment remaining over from 1910, so that the total number of cases treated during the year was 4,145. Of this total (4,145), 3,775 were discharged, 211 died in hospital, and 159 were in hospital under treatment at the close of the year.
Of the 3,897 cases 89 were transferred elsewhere for treatment as follows:—
Government Civil Hospital, .......... 53
Infectious Diseases Hospital (Small-pox), ...... 36