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The Chinese staff consists of G. H. Thomas M.D., B.S., Fok Wing Tai, M.B., B.S., Chiu Chu San, M.B., B.S.; all of whom are graduates of the University of Hongkong. The Directors sanctioned the appointment of a third medical officer. Dr. C. W. McKenny continued to act as the Visiting Medical Officer on behalf of Government.
A résumé of the work done is given in the statement which follows:-
1921 1920 Cases remaining in hospital from 1920, 330 262 Admitted, 6,881 7,129 Total number of in-patients treated, 7,211 7,391 Deaths. 1,813 1,819 Remaining in hospital, 257 330 Under Chinese treatment, 3,329 3,362 Under Western treatment, 3,882 4,029 Deaths (Chinese treatment)-(305 moribund), 1,028 1,099 Deaths (Western treatment)-(moribund, 197), 785 720 Males, 4,592 4,928 Females, 2,289 2,201 Bodies brought to hospital mortuary, 1,363 1,532 Bodies sent to Public Mortuary for autopsy, ... 805 Free burials, 789 292 Destitutes sheltered, 311 ... Out-patients (Chinese treatment), 98,763 125,946 Out-patients (Western treatment), 24,238 22,643 Eye Clinic (Western treatment), 2,792 2,423 Eye Operations, 93 98 Number of vaccinations performed, 2,865 1,256 Confinements, ... 901 Operations performed under general anaesthesia, 549 760The two diseases beri-beri and tuberculosis, more particularly as this affects the lungs, together account for a quarter of the total number of patients, and this has been the case for many years. The number of cases of plague has been much the same in each of the last two years, between seventy and eighty cases being treated each year.
The same applies to cerebro-spinal fever, sixty to seventy patients having been treated in each period.
A considerable number- 2,792-attended for affections of the eye, and 93 operations were performed in this department. Dr. Harston, and during his absence, Dr. Thomas, was in charge.
The teaching of clinical medicine. One of the University lecturers in clinical medicine teaches this.