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The extension of the building, which is of a more modern nature than the older part of the hospital, will make the place more useful for the training of students.
The maternity department is conducted on European lines and 805 patients were treated.
The branch of the Tung Wa Hospital at Kennedy Town is used for Chinese suffering from small-pox and 32 patients were admitted with this disease, of whom 18 died.
The Board of Directors have made many improvements in recent years by providing a new operation theatre, a midwifery department with a special operation room, an improved dietary scale, and more attention is paid to the cleansing of the hospital.
The Directors have also decided to build a new out-patient department in 1922. The provision of a well-trained nursing staff will probably come in due time.
The Kwong Wa Hospital.—Dr. Smalley was the Visiting Medical Officer during the year, except for a few days in January, when Captain H. E. Murray, M.S. acted in this capacity. The Chinese Medical Officers attached to the hospital were B. C. Wong, M.B., B.S.; and S. C. Woo, M.B., B.S. for the first quarter; K. W. Ip, M.B., B.S.; and K. K. Wong, M.B., B.S. for the remainder of the year. A beginning has been made to improve the nursing by the appointment of six Chinese probationer nurses.
Number of patients treated,
Under Chinese treatment 4,291 deaths, 1,026 28 per cent. Under European treatment, 72 per cent. Number of out-patients, 36,160 Under Chinese treatment, 27 per cent. Under European treatment, 73 per cent. Casualty cases, 352 Number of confinements, 644 Operations performed under general anaesthesia, 176VII. THE BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
The work for the year consisted in the routine examination of clinical material for diagnostic purposes, and of the preparation of various vaccines; the making of calf lymph, and of the vaccine for the treatment of rabies, and the preparation of serum for the treatment of cerebro-spinal fever. The various water supplies of the Colony were examined every month. Dr. Scott being on leave since November, the report is by the Acting Bacteriologist, Professor C. Wang.
THE PUBLIC MORTUARIES.
In Victoria.—3,471 post-mortem examinations were conducted here. In addition, upwards of 77,000 rats were examined to ascertain the presence or absence of plague amongst them; in seven only was plague found,