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The number of admissions to hospital during June, July & August was much less than usual, this accounts for the smaller number of total admissions for the year. In order to economise labour "C" Block (comprising about 80 beds) was closed down during this period. By the 1st August the hospital was again working on normal lines with new servants—No striker was reinstated.
On 15th December H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, the new Governor paid an official visit to the hospital.
In Patients.—The number of patients of all nationalities admitted to the Civil Hospital, (excluding the Maternity Block and Lunatic Asylum) was 5774.
1922 1923 1924 1925 ...4417 .5455 .6106 5774On many occasions every available bed (198 in all) was occupied and native patients had to be accommodated on long chairs and garden seats—It is more than probable that this overcrowding will continue—more accommodation for native police and accident cases is urgently needed.
The daily average of patients in hospital was 196.
The patients were divided as follows:
1st class 2nd class 3rd class 859 1003 3912 867 1147 4092Nationalities of Patients:
European Indian Chinese 75 322 5377The males numbered 4949 and the females 825.
Deaths.—356 patients died and of these 136 died within 24 hours of admission.—The death rate was 6.16% as compared with 5.8% in 1924.
The death rates according to sex and nationality were:
Males Females European 1.9% ... Indian 3.2% 7.8% Chinese 5.3% 11.5%Epidemics.—The only diseases that occurred in epidemic form were Malaria and Dengue Fever—Both occurred during the third quarter of the year—The last mentioned was only seen in Europeans and Indians.