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Table II.
Showing the Admissions and Mortality in the Tung Wa Hospital during the year 1917, with the proportion of cases treated by Western and Chinese methods respectively.
DISEASES. WESTERN TREATMENT. CHINESE TREATMENT. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. GENERAL DISEASES. Chicken-pox, Measles, Mumps, Lobar Pneumonia, 93 22 41 Diphtheria, 2 8 Typhoid Fever, 22 31 28 Febricula, 4 3 Erysipelas, 2 Pyæmia, 2 2 Septicemia, 6 5 19 19 Tetanus, 11 9 18 18 Small-pox, (Moribund), 11 11 Plague, 17 17 Dysentery, 85 Beri-beri, 432 12 101 43 Leprosy, Malarial Fever: — (a) Quartan, 1 1 (b) Benign Tertian, 4 6 (c) Malignant, 134 23 123 71 (d) Malarial Cachexia, 21 13 6 Syphilis:- Acquired, 73 4 14 16 Tuberculosis :-- (a) Phthisis Pulmonalis, 181 76 221 143 (b) Generalised, 32 6 59 19 Gonorrhoea, 31 7 Rheumatism, New Growths :- (a) Non-malignant, 19 23 3 (b) Malignant, 2 1 10 1 Anæmia, 56 12 Senile Debility, 73 37 LOCAL DISEASES, Diseases of the Nervous System :- I.-Organic. Diseases of Nerves, Meninges, Brain and Cord, 139 21 157 62 II. Functional. Epilepsy, 2 ... Carried forward,.. 1,374 301 1,433 736