Table II.
Showing the Admissions and Mortality in the Tung Wa Hospital during the year 1918, with the proportion of cases treated by Western and Chinese methods respectively.
WESTERN TREATMENT CHINESE TREATMENT DISEASES Admissions Deaths Admissions Deaths GENERAL DISEASES 1 1 0 0 Chicken-pox 6 0 9 0 Measles 1 0 0 0 Mumps 131 46 123 79 Lobar Pneumonia 4 1 11 9 Diphtheria 3 1 6 2 Typhoid Fever 1 0 2 0 Febricula 1 0 0 0 Erysipelas 1 0 3 3 Septicæmia 1 1 4 4 Tetanus 122 41 364 258 Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 1 1 2 1 Small-pox 327 56 312 88 Influenza 37 31 59 53 Plague 86 27 82 52 Dysentery 471 177 433 212 Beri-beri 1 0 0 0 Leprosy 5 0 18 0 (a) Benign Tertian 41 5 29 5 (b) Malignant 9 2 32 5 (c) Malarial Cachexia 76 11 26 4 Syphilis Acquired 256 134 279 175 (a) Phthisis Pulmonalis 3 3 6 5 (b) Generalised 34 0 14 0 Gonorrhoea 21 2 26 1 Rheumatism 59 26 53 21 New Growths 1 0 1 0 Anæmia LOCAL DISEASES Diseases of the Nervous System 192 57 168 71 I.-Organic. Diseases of the Nerves, Meninges, Brain and Cord 1,902 621 2,029 1,061 Carried forward