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49. The total number of out-patients treated was 79,891 as against 68,179 in 1923; of these 31,572 elected to receive European treatment. This gives a percentage of 40 as against one of 36 in 1923.
The extension mentioned in last year's report was taken in hand and was nearing completion at the end of the year. This extension will help to relieve the pressure on the space hitherto available but the Kowloon Peninsula is developing at such a rate that further extension must soon become necessary. Mr. Lau Pui Sang and his colleagues on the Committee are to be congratulated on the manner in which they have attended to the building of the present extension. The garden lot in front of the hospital was also developed during the year.
CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND PLAGUE HOSPITALS.
(Tables XVI to XXI).
50. The total number of cases treated at the Dispensaries was 157,791 as compared with 142,744 in 1923. Of this total 87,570 were new and 70,221 return cases.
51. The total number of vaccinations performed was 7,769 as against 36,454 in 1923.
52. The total expenditure on the Dispensaries was $43,989 as against $38,351 in 1923.
53. The net revenue of the Dispensaries, excluding a grant of $9,000 by Government was $48,582 as compared with $46,131 in 1923.
54. The two Kowloon Dispensaries at Hunghom and Shamshuipo show balances of $4,883 and $11,995 respectively. In 1923 the balances were $4,408 and $6,878.
55. The number of dead and dying infants brought to the Dispensaries was 1,433 as against 1,510 in 1923.
56. 1,295 corpses were removed to hospital or mortuary as against 1,328 in 1923; 522 applications for coffins were received as against 514 in 1923; and there were 187 attendances for the cleansing of infected premises as against 366 in 1923.
57. The Dispensaries Committee are again indebted to the authorities of the Alice Memorial Hospital for assistance in the matter of the issue of medicines and drugs, and the regulation of their consumption.