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The Victoria Hospital for Women and Children.-300 admitted as compared with 299 in the previous year.
Nine deaths occurred :-
Acute Nephritis ...1
Septicaemia (after small-pox)... ...1
Marasmus... ...2
Enteric Fever ... ...1
Enteritis, ... ...1
Intussusception ...1
Bacillary Dysentery ... 1
General Tuberculosis ...1
Malaria Accounted for 31 admissions as compared with 44 in previous twelve months. The cases were nearly all benign tertian infection and were not such severe cases as were admitted in the previous year.
Diphtheria. Twelve cases admitted. Some of a severe type. One case (Laryngeal) required operation (tracheotomy) to save the child's life.
Dysentery.--Fourteen cases-Mostly Amoebic. There were two severe cases of Bacillary Dysentery, one of which died.
Enteric and Paratyphoid.-During the outbreak which occurred last summer in the Colony fourteen cases were admitted, all of a very severe type (one case admitted on 17th day of disease died). Relapses occurred in almost all the cases.
The New Maternity block has been used during the whole period while the alterations are being carried out in the main building. The difficulty of treating and trying to isolate infectious cases in a General hospital has been keenly felt.
The Kennedy Town Small-pox Hospital.-24 cases of smallpox were admitted during the year and of these 7 died. Also 3 cases of chicken-pox. 7 cases were admitted for observation.
The nationalities of the patients were as follows-British 11, American 3, Portuguese 2, Norwegian 1, Indian 6, Chinese 2, Japanese 6, Filipino 2, Singalese 1. From September 23rd to November 15th, there being no small-pox in the Colony at the time, the hospital was opened to accommodate Wei-hai-wei Policemen suffering from malaria, 92 such were admitted. The reason for this was that owing to overcrowding at the Government Civil Hospital these men could not be kept in that institution for a sufficient length of time to ensure adequate treatment.
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