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Table II.
Showing the Admissions and Mortality in the Tung Wah Hospital during the year 1922, with the proportion of cases treated by Western and Chinese methods respectively.
DISEASES.
Diseases Caused by Infection :
WESTERN TREATMENT CHINESE TREATMENT Diseases Admissions Deaths Admissions Deaths Chicken-pox 2 2 6 6 Diphtheria 142 38 185 86 Dysentery :- (a) Protozoal 1 (b) Bacillary 8 49 Enteric Fever :- (a) Typhoid 214 19 291 222 (b) Para-typhoid 2 13 2 Gonococcal infection 20 15 Influenza... 15 12 Leprosy (b) Nodular (a) Anaesthetic 26 12 ] Malaria :- (a) Quartan 1 ... (b) Benign tertian 4 11 (c) Sub-tertian 107 13 231 41 (d) Malarial cachexia 31 12 8 Measles 6 13 3 Meningococcal Infection :- (4) Cerebro-spinal fever 9 5 C1 Plague....... 218 201 246 209 Septicaemia.. 2 16 15 Syphilis :- (a) Acquired 247 14 (b) Congenital 2 Tetanus 2 Tuberculosis (General) 12 12 421 2 104 11 11 * 20 19 Diseases of the Nervous System :- 1. Diseases of the Nerves.. 3 4 2. Diseases of the Spinal Cord... 112 110 26 3. Diseases of the cerebral meninges :- (a) Tuberculosis........... 3 4. Diseases of the Brain :- (a) Apoplexy 2 2 5 (b) Paralysis 86 61 105 59 (e) Epilepsy 2 ... Carried forward,. 1,280 391 1,437 564