Table I.
Diseases and Deaths in 1925 at the Tung Wah Hospital.
Nomenclature of Diseases. Remaining over from 1924. In 1925. Total. Deaths. Remaining over to 1926. Diseases Caused by Infection :— Chicken-pox.. 1 3 4 1 3 Diphtheria 1 1 2 1 1 Dengue fever 1 1 1 Dysentery :- (a) Amoebic 43 208 251 61 NX (b) Bacillary 2 17 19 8 Enteric Fever :- (a) Typhoid 87 122 209 32 33 (b) Para-typhoid 1 1 1 Erysipelas 9 9 18 7 2 Gonococcal infection 38 42 80 18 24 Influenza 247 247 494 34 5 Western Treatment. Native Treatment. Cases Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Leprosy..... 3 Malaria :- (a) Benign tertian 18 18 7 (b) Sub-tertian 176 133 49 74 109 15 34 (c) Quartan 1 Measles...... 3 5 1 1 4 Meningitis cerebro-spinal 33 33 31 26 25 Mumps 1 1 1 Plague Pyogenic infection: – (a) Abscess-cellulitis (b) Carbuncle 2 2 1 1 (c) Septicaemia 56 56 2 49 1 (d) Osteo-myelitis Pyrexia, simple Scarlet fever Small-pox Syphilis :- (a) Acquired 52 507 559 38 36 305 13 254 25 (b) Congenital... 7 7 Tetanus 17 3 1 1 1 Tuberculosis (General) 12 193 205 6 116 11 89 2 Whooping Cough Diseases of the Nervous System ;- Neuritis, local 4 Neuritis, multiple 76 76 * M Myelitis 12 21 55 1 Spastic paraplegia 2 Carried forward 80 1,695 1,775 299 74 807 91 968 208M (1) 89