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Annexe G.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITALS, KENNEDY TOWN.
REPORT BY DR. D. J. VALENTINE, MEDICAL OFFICER.
At the commencement of the year the upper floor of the hospital was being used to accommodate the beri-beri cases from the Victoria Gaol. By February 15th all these cases, having recovered, had returned to the gaol.
The total number of admissions was 70.
In March, 16 Czecho-Slovak soldiers, who were being repatriated from Vladivostock were admitted. These included eleven suffering from variola, of whom one died; three from typhus, of whom one died, and two who were under observation.
In August, 47 Japanese passengers from Java were admitted for observation as they had been in contact with cases of plague. No case of disease occurred among them, however.
Four cases of small-pox were treated of which three were of the discrete and one of the confluent variety. Only one of these cases occurred in a resident of the colony.
Three European children who were under observation on account of illness were found later on to be suffering from dengue fever.
The buildings were painted during the year and maintained in good condition. Electric light and fans have been installed as well as water-closets.
TUNG WAH SMALL-POX BRANCH HOSPITAL (CHINESE).
During the year six cases were admitted. There were two deaths, in both of which the disease was confluent.