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# THE TUNG WAH SMALLPOX HOSPITAL.
420. The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital, erected in 1902 for the herbal treatment of smallpox cases, consists of six wards arranged in three two-storied blocks and faced by another group of three two-storied blocks intended for staff quarters and for administration purposes.
421. At a distance and separated by a yard are the kitchens, the servants' quarters and the mortuary. The whole is contained in a large compound.
422. This hospital at the time of its construction was considered to have all the requirements necessary for the proper treatment of smallpox cases by Chinese methods.
423. There is room for 60 cases without overcrowding but there is no arrangement for heating the wards and no water carriage system.
424. The staff consists of a Chinese coolie as a caretaker and an amah. There is no resident doctor and no clerk and there are neither dressers nor nurses.
425. Considered to be a herbalist hospital it is seldom visited by any of the Western-trained Tung Wah staff, and for all practical purposes it is controlled by the caretaker. There being no trained staff resident and the control being such as it is there must be grave doubts regarding the efficiency of the disinfection processes and the means taken to prevent dissemination of disease by patients, contacts and fomites.
426. When there are any patients requiring his attention a herbalist from the Tung Wah visits daily and prescribes infusions but there is no attempt at nursing. Certain hospital clothing is provided but the patients as often as not wear their own clothes.
427. 7 cases of smallpox were admitted during the year. There was 1 death.
428. There can be no doubt that conditions at this so-called hospital are most unsatisfactory both from the point of view of the public and the patients. For some time past it has been badly kept up and it is now in a very dilapidated state and unworthy to be called a hospital. As an institution for the segregation and treatment of the infectious sick it has outlived its usefulness and is now obsolete.
429. There being in the Colony no accommodation for the housing of lepers the Directors consented to Government temporarily using a portion of the institution as a refuge for these unfortunates. Since May, 1935, it has been so used.