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During the year, our association with the Tsan Yuk Hospital has become very much closer. In January 1927, Dr. Lam, our Clinical Assistant, was appointed Resident Medical Officer of the Hospital, and since then Dr. (Mrs.) Hickling has been kind enough to allow us to undertake in association with her the medical care of the patients, and when she went on leave in April, the care of the patients was entrusted to us.
The Obstetrical Department owe Dr. Hickling a debt of gratitude for the great facilities she has given, not only for expansion, but for the opportunity to help in the spread of western midwifery in the Colony.
There are approximately fifty beds in the Tsan Yuk Hospital, rather more than half of which are devoted to midwifery, and the remainder to gynaecology. During the year 999 maternity cases, 176 gynaecological cases were admitted, and 78 of the latter were operated upon. The entire nursing staff is Chinese; the matron, Miss Leung, has been trained in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.
The total of the Department for the year is thus as follows:
Maternity cases 1584 Gynaecological 292 Operations 144 Outpatients 2000 approximatelyThe following were published by the Professor during the year:
- "Aids to Gynaecology" 7th ed. (Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, London).
- "Some Observations on the Practice of Medicine as a Profession" Caduceus, March 1927.
- "Stricture of the Vagina among the Chinese" Caduceus, July 1927.
- "Clinical Report of the School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for the year ending 30th April 1927" Caduceus, November 1927.
The following papers were read but not yet published:
- "Prolapse of the Uterus" read before the Hong Kong and China Branch of the British Medical Association.
- "History of Eclampsia" read before the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association.