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425. As with the Tung Wah, while there was an increase in the number of inpatients over the previous year there was a decrease in the outpatients.
THE TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL.
426. This Hospital continues to do very good work. It serves the useful purpose of reminding the older foundation—the Tung Wah—what it is possible for a Chinese Hospital to be. Everything is new and clean and it had the advantage of starting fresh in up-to-date buildings.
427. The staff consists of a Chinese Medical Officer paid for by Government, Dr. Phoon Seck Weng, and two Junior Doctors appointed by the Directors of the Tung Wah.
428. For the greater part of the year the official number of beds was 195. Actually these numbers were augmented by canvas camp beds where the pressure of cases was heavy. Towards the end of the year the opening of the last new wing added another 84 beds, making a total of 279.
429. The 84 new beds comprise 70 for general cases and 14 for maternity. With the camp beds the total number which can be accommodated is at least 300.
430. The hospital is now completed and is a model of what a charity hospital should be, viz., all space occupied without wasting and without overcrowding. Each bed in the general ward has 60 square feet of space only, but such is the plan of the ward and the arrangement of the beds that each of the latter has ample lighting and ventilation.
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Inpatients. Chinese Maternity. Total. Western treatment. 1931 2,185 1932 2,690432.
1931 1932 Major General Anaesthesia. 1,345 1,872 Under General Anaesthesia. 667 588 Total. 4,197 5,150433.
Outpatients. Western treatment. Chinese treatment. 1931 12,471 45,931 1932 16,012 46,283 Total. 58,402 62,295 Vaccinations. 1931 273 1932 414