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THE KWONG WAH HOSPITAL.
26. 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 320 beds; of which 229 are for general diseases, 40 are for tuberculosis cases and 57 are for maternity cases. There are private wards including 7 for maternity cases.
27. The accommodation cannot keep pace with the growth in population. Kowloon has considerably more than doubled itself during the last ten years. No patient is turned away for want of room and in both medical and surgical wards it is common to find two in a bed and others sleeping on the floor.
28. The staff consists of a Senior Resident Medical Officer whose salary is paid by the Government, and three Assistant Medical Officers paid by the Directors.
29. There are also a number of Chinese Herbalists who practice Chinese medicine and are paid out of Hospital funds.
30. The patients on admittance, can choose whether they desire treatment on Western or Chinese lines.
31.
In-patients (General) Western treatment Chinese treatment Total 1937 15,552 5,215 20,767(including 4,040 maternity cases) 1936 13,328 4,436 17,764
(including 4,173 maternity cases)
32. There were 602 operations including 218 major ones.
33.
Out-patients (General) Western treatment Chinese treatment Total 1937 48,396 203,946 252,342 1936 48,106 182,813 230,91934. There were 1,176 eye cases as compared with 3,661 for the previous year.
35. There were 2,050 vaccinations as compared with 1,450 in 1936.