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20.
Eye Clinic.
1933 12,540
1934 13,883
21.
Baby Clinic.
1933 1,270
1934 2,291
22.
Deaths. Brought in dead.
1933 2,249 1,042
1934 2,170 687
23. Although the number of patients who choose their own herbalists to treat their complaints is, to the Western mind, still too large, most of these are not suffering seriously. For anything of major importance they learn by experience to put themselves in the hands of a scientifically-trained doctor.
24. A large proportion of the deaths in the Hospital occur within 24 hours of admission. The sick poor go there to die. Those brought in dead include bodies sent from ships in harbour, from neighbouring hospitals, from the Public Dispensaries, and from private houses. These are taken to the Tung Wah for the benefit of the free coffins and free burials, and also to avoid post-mortem examinations.
25. The new building was opened in May, 1934, and is an immense improvement on anything that has gone before in this Hospital. It accommodates private patients, maternity cases, surgical cases, the operating theatre, the X-ray department, the administration department and the admission wards, besides containing lecture rooms for the nurses and quarters for the resident medical officers.
26. During the year 29 nurses sat for the Hong Kong Nurses Board Examination—25 passed and 4 failed in one or more subjects. Eleven passed the Final Examination and were registered as general trained nurses.
THE KWONG WAH HOSPITAL.
27. This hospital does for Kowloon and the Peninsula what the Tung Wah and the Tung Wah Eastern do for the island of Hong Kong. There is official accommodation for about 326 beds of which 229 are for general diseases, 40 are for tuberculosis cases and 57 are for maternity cases. There are 18 private wards, including 7 for maternity cases.