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Table II.
Showing the Admissions and Mortality in the Tung Wa Hospital during the year 1916, with the proportion of cases treated by Western and Chinese methods respectively.
DISEASES. WESTERN TREATMENT. CHINESE TREATMENT. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. GENERAL DISEASES. Small-pox, (Moribund), 2 2 6 6 Erysipelas, Chicken-pox, Measles, Lobar Pneumonia, 136 32 115 74 Diphtheria, 3 3 1 1 Typhoid Fever, 3 3 19 8 Septicemia, 18 16 Tetanus, 11 6 21 19 Plague, 4 3 6 Cholera, 1 1 Dysentery, 102 21 114 41 Beri-beri, 339 84 367 183 Leprosy, 6 Malarial Fever :— (a) Quartan, 3 (b) Benign Tertian, 7 4 (c) Malignant, 168 23 102 67 (d) Mixed Infection, 1 1 1 (e) Malarial Cachexia, 11 2 14 7 Syphilis : (a) Acquired, 66 3 72 10 (b) Inherited, 1 Tuberculosis :-- (a) Phthisis Pulmonalis, 208 67 252 154 (b) Generalised, 22 6 47 22 Gonorrhoea, 8 13 Rheumatism, New Growths:- (a) Non-malignant, 27 3 42 6 (b) Malignant, 3 4 2 2 Anæmia, 4 Senile Debility, 11 9 38 14 LOCAL DISEASES. Diseases of the Nervous System :- Meningitis, Brain and Cord, 189 31 167 36 Carried forward, 1,401 312 1,451 716