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The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital.
417. 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.
418. The staff consists of a Chinese Medical Officer paid for by Government, and two Junior Doctors appointed by the Directors of the Tung Wah.
419. For the greater part of the year the official number of beds was 254. Actually these numbers were augmented by canvas camp beds where the pressure of cases was heavy. With the camp beds the total number which can be accommodated is at least 300.
420. 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.
421.
Inpatients. Western treatment. Chinese treatment. Maternity. Total. 1933 2,560 2,680 767 6,007 1932 2,690 1,872 588 5,150422.
Major Operations under General Anaesthesia. 1933 151 1932 159423.
Outpatients. Western treatment. Chinese treatment. Total. 1933 22,211 52,005 74,216 1932 16,012 46,283 62,295424.
Vaccinations. 1933 443 1932 414424. The number of children admitted continues to increase and there is now a large children's ward.