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Patients. Admitted. Discharged.! Died in Hospital. Remaining in Hospital at end of the year.
Male, 32 4 28 Female, 23 1 22 Total, 55 5 50At the Central Public Dispensary the coolie-quarters were completed, the cost of the building being defrayed by Mr. Ng Hon-tsz and of the land by Mr. Ho Kom-tong.
The West Point Dispensary and District Plague Hospital was granted rent free an additional strip of Crown Land, by which means more light and air are afforded to the building and easy access to the mortuary is secured.
At the request of the District Committees the Plague Hospitals at East and West Point respectively were allowed, whether there was plague in the Colony or not, to be thrown open to women and children suffering from ordinary diseases, on the understanding that the hospitals should be under the supervision of a duly qualified medical practitioner under the Principal Civil Medical Officer, and that all patients who wished for Chinese treatment and medicines should be sent by these hospitals to the Tung Wa Hospital.
The number of patients suffering from ordinary diseases admitted to the two hospitals during the year was, at East Point two, and at West Point seven.
Dr. Fitzwilliams was appointed Consulting Medical Officer to the General Committee; and Dr. Mitchell was elected to act for Dr. Gibson as a member of the Committee, with duties of visiting the Hunghom and Kowloon City Dispensaries, and supervising the purchase and use of drugs.
The number of bodies abandoned after dropping to 268 in 1910 has risen again to 315, the percentage of bodies abandoned to deaths having also risen slightly from 3.6 in 1910 to 4.2 in 1911 (Table XXI).
The following Table gives particulars of interest regarding Plague and Small-pox. A comparison between the figures for 1910 and 1911 and the same table in future reports will be the best means of ascertaining if fear of isolation and disinfection is increasing or not.