The Kowloon Hospital is situated on the mainland and stands in a medical reserve of over thirty acres. There are ninety-seven beds in the general blocks and thirty-four in the maternity block. The out-patients department as in previous years increased its activities.
The following summary shows the work carried out during 1937 as compared with 1936.
1936 1937 In-patients. General 3,367 3,706 Maternity 1,137 1,372 Daily average. General 104 101 Maternity 23 22 Operations under general anaesthesia 1,083 1,322 Out-patients 66,193 101,709Some 334 deaths took place in in-patients.
The Victoria General and Maternity Hospital which possessed forty-six general and twenty-six maternity beds in two separate blocks, was closed on the 7th of June.
During the period 1st January to 7th June the hospital accommodated 199 general, and 30 maternity cases. The daily average for the general block was twenty-four and for the maternity block three women and three children. There were no deaths. The number of out-patients treated was 542.
The Mental Hospital had a daily average of seventy patients although it was designed to accommodate only thirty-two patients. The hospital is used mainly as a temporary abode for mental cases, Chinese and Europeans being repatriated to their respective countries. 149 lunatics were transferred to Canton in 1937. Some fifty-one cases remained from 1936 and 359 were admitted in 1937. Seventy-one cases were discharged as cured, sixty-two as relieved and fifty-two as not improved. There were twenty deaths.
The Government Infectious Diseases Hospital is situated at Kennedy Town on the western outskirts of Victoria. It contains only twenty-six beds which have been proved to be inadequate to accommodate the more serious types of infectious diseases. 1,299 cases of cholera, sixty cases of smallpox and eight cases ...