31. Tsang Yuk Hospital. This Maternity Hospital was formerly part of the organisation financed and managed by the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee and was handed over to Government as a free gift on 1st January, 1934.
The care of the patients is under the general supervision of the University Professor of Obstetrics who is also a Government Consultant. The University Medical students receive training there.
There are 60 beds, of which 46 are reserved for maternity cases and 14 for gynaecological cases.
During the year 1,636 cases were admitted to the Maternity section and 264 to the Gynaecological sections, a total of 1,900 admissions.
In the out-patients department, 4,172 people attended during the year. Separate Gynaecological, Infant Welfare and Anti-Natal Clinics were held in which 1,279, 2,494, and 399 cases respectively were treated or advised.
32. The Chinese Hospitals.—Tung Wah, Tung Wah Eastern, Kwong Wah—are hospitals which are maintained by the Tung Wah Charity Organisation, a purely Chinese body. These institutions, which are assisted by Government, are under inspection by the Government Medical Department. Each has as its Medical Superintendent a Chinese Medical Officer who is paid by Government. The Medical staff consists of Chinese Medical Officers, qualified in Western Medicine, and Chinese Herbalists.
The patient is given his choice of treatment.
HOSPITAL No. of beds No. treated in 1936 No. treated in 1935 Chinese Western Medicine Herbalist Medicine Western Medicine Chinese Medicine Herbalist Medicine Tung Wah-General 446 9,251 5,723 7,088 4,984 Maternity 24 2,034 1,833 Kwong Wah-General 267 9,155 4,436 7,296 3,364 Maternity 59 4,173 4,439 Tung Wah Eastern-General 222 5,110 2,715 4,778 2,185 Maternity 14 1,120 1,154