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Table I.
Diseases and Deaths in 1923 at the Tung Wah Hospital.
NOMENCLATURE, Remaining in Hospital at end of 1922. Yearly Total. Admissions, Total Treated. Remaining in Hospital at end of 1923. Deaths. Diseases Caused by Infection Chicken-pox...... 3 3 6 2 ... Diphtheria ... 12 12 5 4 Dengue.... ... ... ... ... ... Dysentery 2 2 4 ... 2 (a) Amoebic 2 ... 2 ... ... (b) Bacillary ... 2 2 ... 2 Enteric Fever :- (a) Typhoid ... 28 28 ... ... (b) Para-typhoid. ... ... ... ... ... Erysipelas ... 31 31 14 ... Gonococcal infection 1 i ... ... ... Influenza... ... 5 5 ... ... Leprosy. ... ... ... ... ... Malaria :- (a) Benign tertian 2 72 74 1 ... (b) Sub-tertian 247 4 251 217 3 (c) Quartan ... 4 4 ... ... (d) Malarial Cachexia 27 ... 27 27 6 Measles.... ... 340 340 101 ... Meningococcal Infection :- (a) Cerebro-spinal fever 11 1 12 1 1 Mumps 1 ... 1 1 ... Plague ... 37 37 11 13 Pyogenic infection :- (a) Pyaemia ........ ... 2 2 2 ... (b) Septicaemia 2 ... 2 ... ... Pyrexia of uncertain origin ... 17 17 12 ... Small-pox (Moribund). ... ... ... ... ... Syphilis :- (a) Acquired 1 6 7 6 ... (b) Congenital.. ... 22 22 ... ... Tetanus ... 15 15 15 Y Tuberculosis (General) 12 573 585 26 38 Whooping Cough 2 2 4 2 2 Diseases of the Nervous System :-- Neuritis ... 6 6 ... ... Myelitis 8 ... 8 ... ... Spastic Paraplegia ... 23 23 21 1 Carried forward,.. 34 1,813 1,847 371 70