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Vaccination against small pox was performed on 70 occasions.
This very low figure is probably due to the intensive vaccination campaign towards the end of 1923 which probably made a clearance of person willing to be vaccinated.
The prescriptions dispensed numbered 25,452.
Nationalities of Patients :-
1924 1923 European 867 722 Indian ... ... Other Asiatics 1147 1096 4092 3637The Males numbered 5,191 and the Female 915.
Deaths.-359 patients died and of these 126 died within 24 hours of admission.
The death rate was 5.8 % as compared with 5.7 % in 1923.
The death rate according to sex and nationality were:-
Males Females European ... ... Indian 1.3% 2.6% Chinese 7.7% 5.1% ... 10.2%Operations performed:-864 operations are recorded as having been performed but it is probably that about 1000 were in fact performed. This difference is due to occasional forgetfulness on the part of the numerous anaesthetists in entering cases in the anaesthetic register.
These operations were performed by the Government staff, by the University Clinic under the control of Prof. Digby and in dental matters by Dr. Shovelton and in a few cases by other dentists.
The following list includes those operations which may be considered numerically or intrinsically of interest :-
Removal of benign growths 27 malignant growths 24 tuberculosis glands 12 varicose veins ... tonsils and adenoids 35 foreign bodies 3 calculus in bladder 17 calculus in urethra 16 eye-ball ... 12 60 2 3 2