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TUNG WA SMALL-POX BRANCH HOSPITAL (CHINESE).
Buildings. The buildings have been well maintained and extensive repairs have been carried out.
Staff. This has remained as formerly.
Forty-one patients were carried over from 1916.
One hundred and five new cases were admitted during 1917. There were no patients in hospital at the end of the year.
All patients were suffering from small-pox and were Chinese. Of the total number of cases under treatment (146) 47 died giving a mortality of 32.1%.
Five patients were under European treatment. None of these died.
It is impossible to obtain an exact history of vaccination in the majority of these cases and consequently one cannot draw up a Table similar to that given in the Government Hospital returns.
The following table is, however, accurate and is based on observed facts rather than the history as given by the patients:
Vaccinated Unvaccinated Cured 87 12 Died 5 42