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Tai Po and Fan Ling Stations again supplied the vast majority of the Malarial cases.
Medicine chests have been made, filled up and distributed to the four following Stations:- Sam Chun, Sheung Shui, Sha Tau Kok and Sha Tin, whilst one is carried on each train, except the expresses. These chests contain enough dressings, lotions, splints, etc., for all emergencies and contain in addition five stock mixtures and a spirit lamp and basin for sterilizing instruments, etc.
Additional long splints are kept at the stations and on the trains.
The Station Masters and guards are held responsible for these chests and report weekly if they have used any of the contents. The remaining Stations, except Hung Hom, have cupboards containing dressing and lotions and a few useful mixtures.
During the year five fatal accidents occurred on the line, there were the usual number of minor ones.
KOWLOON AND THE NEW TERRITORIES.
There was a considerable increase in the amount of Plague and Small-pox as compared with 1913.
All the Small-pox cases were sent to Kennedy Town till a case of Bubonic Plague at the Kwong Wa Hospital unfortunately developed Small-pox and was removed to the Yaumati Small-pox Hospital. This case recovered and 4 more were subsequently admitted.
The Kowloon Mortuary returns show an increase of 239 cases of Plague and Small-pox compared with the previous year.
A considerable number of vaccinations have been performed in the New Territories. In the Sheung Shui district 479 people were vaccinated with 21 failures whilst in the Au Tau and Tsun Wan districts no failures are recorded in 125 vaccinations. In Kowloon we performed 135 vaccinations with 1 failure in a primary case and 19 in secondary cases making a total of 739 vaccinations with 41 failures.
The Government Dispensary at Tai Po Market and the Railway Dispensary at Tai Po have both been visited at intervals by the Medical Officer and his Assistant.
The following table gives the number of cases treated at these two Dispensaries together with the figures for 1913--
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