Table II.
Showing the Admissions and Mortality in the Tang Wa Hospital during the year 1919, with the proportion of cases treated by Western and Chinese methods respectively.
DISEASES. WESTERN TREATMENT. CHINESE TREATMENT. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. GENERAL DISEASES. Measles 1 0 Lobar Pneumonia 46 12 58 23 Diphtheria 3 3 0 0 Typhoid Fever 6 1 7 7 Pyæmia 2 Septicæmia 2 4 4 4 Tetanus 3 1 8 7 Cerebro-spinal Meningitis. 89 32 38 35 Influenza.... 251 32 288 65 Acute Gastro-Enteritis 127 51 125 85 Plague.... 103 84 126 98 Dysentery 133 29 159 58 Beri-beri 467 127 403 169 Leprosy 6 2 1 Malarial Fever :- (a) Benign Tertian 11 0 4 0 (b) Malignant 98 12 74 37 (c) Malarial Cachexia 12 1 8 1 Syphilis :-- Acquired 74 2 33 9 Tuberculosis :- (a) Phthisis Pulmonalis 281 113 (b) Generalised 21 12 Gonorrhoea 18 Rheumatism New Growths: Malignant 11 0 Anæmia 14 * 368 160 36 19 Senile Debility 21 11 0 3 0 1 LOCAL DISEASES. 78 ** 20 3 0 5 1 Diseases of the Nervous System :- I.-Organic :- Diseases of the Nerves, Meninges, Brain and Cord. 226 53 209 88 - II. Functional: Epilepsy 2 Mental Diseases 10 0 14 Diseases of the Eye 87 0 9 0 Carried forward.... 2,185 605 2,116 930