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Annexe I.
KOWLOON AND THE NEW TERRITORIES.
REPORT BY DR. J. W. HARTLEY, Medical Officer.
Mr. P. D. R. Naidu has acted as General Medical Assistant throughout the year.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
The health of the Staff has been a great deal better than was anticipated. Although there were several cases of Malaria and Febricula the patients were almost invariably old "Fever Subjects" who became infected during "Construction" days, and no part of the Railway can now be considered as a focus of infection.
Accidents were very few and for the most part of the minor kind. None of them resulted in loss of life.
Six cases were sent to hospital for the following causes :-
Febricula, Tuberculosis, Injuries, Venereal,
1 2 1 2 6The Fanling and Sha Tau Kok branch line was in course of construction during the year.
Labour for the most part was recruited from the neighbouring villages and consequently temporary coolie camps were not established.
Such diseases as Malaria, Dysentery and Beri-beri did not appear to any but the ordinary extent.
The line was visited regularly by the Dispensary Dresser from Taipo who attended to the ordinary cases of Ulcers, Fever and Minor Injuries.
The Medical Officer and Medical Assistant also frequently visited the line.
Only one serious accident occurred resulting in the fracture of both bones of the leg.
NEW TERRITORIES.
There was the usual epidemic of Small-pox at the beginning of the year but no other epidemic made its appearance.