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APPENDIX D.
MEDICAL UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.
Report by the Professor of Medicine.
Number of Inpatients :-
Men 217
Women 93
Children (under 12) 100
Total:- 410
Special investigations on Gastro-intestinal disease have been carried out by means of the fractional test meal.
Results:-
Duodenal Ulcer 5 cases, Curves showing Hyperchlorhydria.
Gastric Ulcer 2
Dyspepsia 27 } normal curves.
Dyspepsia of nervous origin 3 Curves showing Hyperchlorhydria.
Gall-stones 2
Ascariasis 1 Achlorhydria.
Clonorchiasis 1
Amoebiasis 11
The technique of the fractional test meal has been carried out with remarkable ease and success. This is surprising since the poor inpatients are uneducated and unaccustomed to western methods of clinical investigation.
The incidence of gastric disease is fairly high amongst the poorer classes. The most common etiological factors seem to be constipation and pyorrhoea--the incidence of the latter being very high amongst the inpatients.
Special investigations have been carried out in relation to Renal Disease.
Blood Urea Estimations have been made.
Blood Creatinine Estimations have been made.
Urea Concentration tests (MacLean's method) have been carried out.