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IV.--HOSPITALS; INSTITUTES, &c.
The Civil Hospital.--Drs. W.B.A. Moore and C.W. McKenny were the officers attached to this hospital for the year under review; Dr. To Ying Kwan also acted as a medical officer, temporarily employed, in January and February. The nursing staff consisted of a matron, 13 nursing sisters; 2 nurses: 8 Chinese dressers, and 5 Japanese staff nurses. The Japanese were replaced later on in the year by Chinese probationer nurses.
In-patients.--4,815 were treated in hospital, the daily average being 152.4; 63 were in the first class; 223 in the second; and 4,529 in the third class. In the previous year there were 4,701 in-patients, and the daily average was 152.
Out-patients.—27,322 persons attended the out-patient department; 857 persons were vaccinated. In 1920 there were 31,196 out-patients and 589 persons were vaccinated.
Nationalities of patients.
In-patients Deaths Death Rate Europeans 688 19 2.7 Indians 943 20 2.1 Chinese and Others 3,185 237 7.4Of this number 3,944 were males and 871 females.
Deaths.--276 patients died, and 90 of these died within twenty-four hours after admission.
The death rate was 5.7 per cent.
188 males died, the death rate being 4.7 per cent.
88 females died, the death rate being 10.1 per cent.
**Operations.--905 were performed under general anaesthesia, including those of the University Clinic. The X-ray apparatus was out of order for two months, but was put right eventually and 169 examinations were made with it; it continues to work satisfactorily. The more important of the operations performed were:-
For the removal of benign tumours 59 malignant tumours/cysts 27 For varices 7 tuberculous glands 39 The plating of fractures 24 Excision of superior maxilla 1 Removal of sequestra 13 For necrosis of lower jaw 1 Excision of the knee joint 4 Amputation through the arm 1 Amputation through the thigh, leg 5, 11