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In February, Dr. M. B. Osman became Assistant to the Professor of Pathology and as part of his duties he conducted the postmortem examination for the University Cliniques at the Government Civil Hospital. In connection with the medical clinique he carried out nearly a hundred autopsies and his demonstrations in morbid anatomy proved a most valuable adjunct to the clinical teaching.
The three hospital wards allotted to the medical clinique contain 42 beds and 4 cots. During the year, the patients—men, women, and children—admitted to these wards numbered 621. In the out-patient department, clinical teaching is conducted on two afternoons per week, and the new patients who passed through these cliniques numbered 2398. Two morning sessions per week are also allotted to the Medical Unit and the new patients who attended these sessions numbered over 5000.
The following paper was published:
Staff:-
"The Present Position of Malaria" by J. Anderson, Caduceus, July 1927.
SURGICAL UNIT.
Kenelm H. Digby, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S. (Professor of Surgery and Ho Tung Professor of Clinical Surgery, Consulting Surgeon to the Government and to the South China Command; Late Surgical Registrar at Guy's Hospital, London).
S. W. Phoon, M.B., B.S. (Assistant to the Professor of Surgery).
C. W. McKenny, B.A., M.D., D.M.R.E. (Lecturer in Radiology and Anaesthetics).
T. P. Tu, M.B., B.S. (Clinical Assistant).
C. H. Yeoh, M.B., B.S. (House Surgeon).
The Professor of Surgery went on leave from April to the end of the year. Dr. S. W. Phoon carried on his work in his absence with the help (as Consultant) of Dr. C. W. McKenny and later of Dr. D. J. Valentine at the Government Civil Hospital. Dr. G. H. Thomas conducted the course of Operative Surgery. Dr. J. Morrison conducted a course of systematic lectures in Ophthalmology, in addition to the clinical classes.
The following papers were published during the year:
"Preliminary Note on a New Method of Plating Fractures by K. H. Digby, China Medical Journal, April 1927.