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Annexe E.
VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
REPORT BY DR. J. T. C. JOHNSON, Principal Civil Medical Officer.
Staff.-Five of the Nursing Sisters, one Staff Nurse and one Probationer Nurse were employed in this post during the year.
Admissions to Hospital.-201 persons were admitted as compared with 156 in the preceding year.
Deaths.-Eight occurred and they were caused by
Malignant malaria, 3 Septicemia, 1 Cancer of intestines, 1 Meningitis, 1 Cirrhosis of liver, 1 Prematurity at birth, 1Malaria.-Thirty-eight cases were admitted, of which thirty-three were due to the aestivo-autumnal parasite and four to chronic malarial poisoning.
The following operations were performed
Caretting, 1 For Hæmorrhoids, 1 Repair of Perineum, 1 Appendicitis, 2 Epulis, 1 Removal of enlarged tonsils and adenoids, 1 Varicose veins, 110