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Maternity Hospital Accommodation.
1. The total hospital accommodation in the Colony for maternity cases is 205 and the number delivered in hospitals was 8,172:
Hospital Beds No. of cases Government Civil 20 776 Victoria 33 67 Tsan Yuk 57 1,326 Wanchai 22 1,029 Tung Wah 17 1,896 Kwong Wah 30 2,589 Alice Memorial 18 459 Matilda 8 30 TOTAL 205 8,172The Maternity Pavilion at the Government Civil Hospital.
1. The Maternity Pavilion accommodating 20 beds, the majority of which are at the disposal of the Professor of Obstetrics, University of Hong Kong, is mainly for the use of Asiatic women.
There are a few private rooms for the treatment of better class Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese patients. Europeans, as a rule, find accommodation in Victoria Hospital.
2. The admissions during the year were:
Europeans 10 Indians 35 Other Asiatics 731 TOTAL 776One hundred cases had to be refused admission owing to lack of vacant beds.
The number of cases treated in 1927 was 686.