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The patient is given his choice of treatment.
No. HOSPITAL No. TREATED IN 1934 No. TREATED IN 1933 Chinese Medicine Western Medicine Herbalist Tung Wah-General... 426 5,671 5,480 5,588 4,491 Maternity. 25 1,320 1,600 Kwong Wah-General. 269 5,902 2,883 6,082 3,195 Maternity. 59 4,106 4,006 Tung Wah Eastern-General 222 3,050 2,528 2,560 2,680 Maternity. 14 954 76735. Tung Woh Infectious Diseases Hospital.-Situated in Kennedy Town and adjacent to the Government Infectious Diseases Hospital is the Tung Wah Infectious Diseases Hospital, an institution containing 30 beds where 60 patients could be accommodated at a pinch. The treatment here is left almost entirely to the herbalists.
During the year there were 47 patients, as compared with 137 in the preceding year.
TREATMENT OF OPIUM ADDICTS.
At the Government Civil Hospital and Tung Wah Eastern Hospital six and twelve beds (respectively) are reserved for the treatment of opium addicts, the Government being responsible for the expenses incurred. 56 cases were treated at the former institution and 413 at the latter, making a total of 469 cases.
Chapter V.
HOUSING.
In recent years some evidence has been shown amongst the artizan class of the Colony of a quickening social consciousness and the resultant desire to avail themselves of improved housing accommodation wherever such is made available. The unskilled