# 17.
1935
C 18
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In-patients (General).
Western Chinese treatment. treatment.
Maternity Total.
cases.
7,157 4,984 1,833 13,974
1936
9,251 5,723 2,034 17,008
18. There were 1,586 operations including 303 major cases.
19.
Out-patients (General).
Western treatment.
Chinese treatment.
Total.
1935
... 34,748 170,584 205,332
1936
33,486 165,370 198,856
20.
Eye Clinic
1935 16,312
1936 16,996
21.
Baby Clinic.
1935 2,523
1936 1,726
22.
Deaths. Brought in dead.
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1935 2,539 645
1936 3,326 990
23. 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. All are taken to the Tung Wah for the benefit of free coffining and free burial.
THE KWONG WAH HOSPITAL,
24. 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. 18 private wards including 7 for maternity cases.
There are