Table II,-(Continued).
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. WESTERN TREATMENT. CHINESE TREATMENT. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. Brought forward. 2,826 987 2,861 1,124 Diseases of the Female Organs of Generation... 17 28 2 Diseases of the Organs of Locomotion :- (a) Osteo-myelitis 4 (b) Synovitis 31 1 (c) Myalgia 34 1 (d) Lumbago 68 (e) Rheumatoid arthritis 13 Diseases of the Areolar Tissue :- (a) Inflammation 2 (b) Abscess 17 (c) Carbuncle 1 Diseases of the Skin 14 5 7 (a) Burns and scalds............. 9 ... & Diseases of the Urinary Organs :- (a) Nephritis (Chronic). 2 ... 16 ... (b) Calculus ... 19 4 (c) Cystitis. 4 General Injuries :— Local Injuries :- (a) Wounds 105 14 134 22 (b) Fractures 2 ... Tumours and cysts... 16 ... 48 Poisons: (a) Opium ... 91 Animal Parasites :- (a) Ascaris lumbricoides 4 (b) Ankylostoma duodenale 1 (c) Filaria bancrofti 1 Parturition..... 1,017 3 Old age 59 33 75 40 8 43 39 2 20 53 15 123 21 4 Total,. 4,622 1,056 3,714 1,211