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Table XXVII.
In-patients.
Tung Wah (Eastern) Kwong Wah Totals Chinese treatment 8,397 2,563 5,215 16,175 Western treatment 10,221 6,021 15,552 31,794 Combined 18,618 8,584 20,767 47,969 Operations 1,088 147 602 1,837 Deaths in hospital 4,336 2,262 6,043 12,641 Brought in dead 918 683 1,832 3,433 Death-rate per 1,000 in-patients 233 264 290 264 Tung Wah Tung Wah (Eastern) Kwong Wah Totals Out-patients Chinese treatment 186,530 72,388 203,946 462,864 Western treatment 39,875 28,197 48,396 116,468 Combined 226,405 100,585 252,342 579,332 Eye clinic 16,274 118 1,176 17,568 Baby clinic 492 8,045 8,537 Ante-natal clinic 271 271 Anti-smallpox vaccinations 5,962 876 2,050 8,888The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals comprises the Tung Wah and Tung Wah (Eastern) Hospitals situated on the Island and the Kwong Wah Hospital in Kowloon on the mainland.
The figures relating to persons treated are deliberately separated from those relating to Government Hospitals for reasons which are no doubt apparent after a perusal of the earlier paragraphs in this section.
The official combined bed accommodation at these hospitals amounts to 1097. The actual number of in-patients not infrequently approaches twice this figure.
Table XXVII above gives some idea of the large volume of work done.
The old Tung Wah Infectious Diseases Hospital (at Kennedy Town on Hong Kong Island) served as a refuge for lepers during 1937, the premises having been condemned for the treatment of acute infectious diseases. Lepers to the number of 167 (of whom only thirty were females) were admitted during the year, ten having remained from the end of 1936,